Richard and James, here is the information you requested. Has anyone installed 9.1 Pro and had portmap start (or seem to start and then quit)? I cannot find portmap when I do "ps -A | grep portmap". When I try to "mount gateway:/HDD2 /SomeDir" from another Linux machine I get the error: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive. When I examine /var/log/messages after doing "insserv /etc/init.d/portmap" I do not see any evidence that it ran or failed. However, when I re-run inetd it immediately displays an error, some kind of failure in communicating. All this makes me think that something has not been configured associated in some way with the operation or enabling of portmap. When I cause it to produce a status or retry it always declares success yet it must immediately fail because it does not show up on "ps -A" as it does on the other Linux machines. Could the firewall inhibit the operation of portmap? Should I be getting SuSe support to look at this problem? Thanks-TED ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. Richard Matson" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Installation Problem #2 - 9.1 Pro - portmapper--REINSTALL

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 8:15 am, Ted Hilts wrote:

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Is there a safe way of reinstalling the 9.1 Pro in order to correct a failed installation? Or, will the same problems I have encountered again reappear?

Depends upon what went wrong. Can you tell us more about what you did. i.e. cd or ftp etc. Rich

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Thanks -- TED

-- Rich Matson Reno, Nv. USA

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The Wednesday 2004-10-27 at 08:03 -0600, Ted Hilts wrote:

When I examine /var/log/messages after doing "insserv /etc/init.d/portmap" I do not see any evidence that it ran or failed.

Nor should it. Try 'chkconfig portmap' or better 'chkconfig --list portmap' - but notice that it just tells the service to start at the needed runlevels, not to start at that moment. To start it "right now" use 'rcportmap start'. You can try, also, to set up network in yast. If I remember correctly, at some point it asks you whether it should run portmap. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson