• Registered: 2011-09-30
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Topic: [SOLVED] nfs install failure

Hey folks,

Ran an apt-get dist-upgrade after getting error message installing nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server from synaptic.  This is what I get from upgrade:

kevin@CrunchD610:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for kevin: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up nfs-common (1:1.2.4-1~bpo60+1) ...
insserv: Service portmap has to be enabled to start service nfs-common
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing nfs-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nfs-kernel-server:
 nfs-kernel-server depends on nfs-common (= 1:1.2.4-1~bpo60+1); however:
  Package nfs-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing nfs-kernel-server (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
configured to not write apport reports
                                      configured to not write apport reports
                                                                            Errors were encountered while processing:
 nfs-common
 nfs-kernel-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I am trying to set up samba, and failing, but I know I need nfs to continue.  How do I get nfs onto my system?

Also, can you lead me to a thread to set up samba on #! or a web resource.

Thanks in advance for the help

Last edited by Kevins4 (2012-02-02 23:15:24)

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Re: [SOLVED] nfs install failure

insserv: Service portmap has to be enabled to start service nfs-common
insserv: exiting now!

Has portmap been disabled perhaps? If yes, enable it again

sudo update-rc.d portmap enable

Then make sure portmap is running

sudo invoke-rc.d portmap restart

Finally:

sudo apt-get -f install

Last edited by xaos52 (2012-01-31 10:28:54)

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  • Registered: 2011-09-30
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Re: [SOLVED] nfs install failure

Thanks for the reply xaos52.  This is what I get when running update-rc.d

sudo update-rc.d portmap enable
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
update-rc.d: error: cannot find a LSB script for portmap

I do not know what LSB is.  Where do I find this?

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  • Registered: 2011-09-30
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Re: [SOLVED] nfs install failure

OK, did get nfs installed from synaptic.  Very confusing to this noob!

Portmap was not installed, therefore, the update / invoke commands did not work.  Installed portmap, rebooted and executed commands and then selected nfs to be installed from synaptic.  However, synaptic removed portmap to install nfs????

Thanks for the help none the less.

Can you direct me to a thread for installing samba correctly??

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  • Registered: 2011-09-30
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Re: [SOLVED] nfs install failure

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Last edited by Kevins4 (2012-02-02 23:13:07)

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  • Registered: 2012-02-03
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Re: [SOLVED] nfs install failure

The problem is that nfs-common has been updated in the backports repo, but portmap has not, and the new nfs-common and old portmap are not compatible. So to install it either disable backports, or use force version to install the previous version of nfs-common.