RPC: sendmsg return error 101 RPC: ... (the same message several times...)

Hi, I'm trying to use SuSE 6.1 as an X terminal, with an NFS root file system. Linux boot out of a floppy, requests its IP adress, get it from a dhcp server, and mounts its file system on the same server. It works, as you can see in the following log messages, on the server side: Jun 4 12:41:17 eth13-168 dhcpd: BOOTREQUEST from 00:50:04:37:71:bc via eth0 Jun 4 12:41:17 eth13-168 dhcpd: BOOTREPLY for 150.1.27.15 to eth27-015 (00:50:04:37:71:bc) via eth0 Jun 4 12:41:24 eth13-168 mountd[103]: NFS mount of /xterminals/root attempted from 150.1.27.15 Jun 4 12:41:24 eth13-168 mountd[103]: /xterminals/root has been mounted by 150.1.27.15 After that, the client as still a lot of things to do, as creating its own directory on the server (only the first time), where it will save its configuration files. But I get the following messages on the client's console: plus, sometimes, this one:

portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out. (I expect that this message means that a local service is falling)

According to /usr/include/asm/errno.h, the error number 101 means "Network unreachable..." The root file system, built from a SuSE 6.0 , is working very well with a kernel 2.0.36, but I don't have the .config file corresponding to it. Here is my own .config file, perhaps somebody could find if something is wrong. I've dropped most of the "is not set" lines. ------------------- # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # # Language for Kernel Configuration # CONFIG_CONFIGLANG_ENGLISH=y # # Code maturity level options # # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set # # Processor type and features # CONFIG_M486=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set CONFIG_KMOD=y # # General setup # CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y # CONFIG_MCA is not set # CONFIG_VISWS is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y # CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not set CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y # CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT is not set # CONFIG_APM is not set # # Plug and Play support # CONFIG_PNP=y # # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE is not set (I don't use the hard disk). # # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY is not set # # Additional Block Devices # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y # CONFIG_PARIDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set # # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_NETLINK=y # CONFIG_RTNETLINK is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set # CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set # CONFIG_FILTER is not set CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set CONFIG_IP_PNP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set # CONFIG_IP_ALIAS is not set # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set # # (it is safe to leave these untouched) # # CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y # # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y CONFIG_VORTEX=y # # Character devices # CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y # CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set # CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS is not set CONFIG_MOUSE=y # # Mice # CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y # # Ftape, the floppy tape device driver # CONFIG_FT_NORMAL_DEBUG=y CONFIG_FT_STD_FDC=y # # Filesystems # CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y # # Network File Systems # CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y CONFIG_SUNRPC=y CONFIG_LOCKD=y # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y ------------------------ Thanks for any help. Philippe Allart -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>