https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675448 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675448#c0 Summary: NFS4 client-only installation fails to launch idmapd (NFS4 uid/gid mapping daemon) when mounting via autofs; standalone init.d script missing Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: pgngw+dev001+novell.com@f-m.fm QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-3.1 Firefox/3.6.13 in an all NFS4 client & server environment, to correctly map UID/GID, the idmapd deamon is required. in opensuse, the deamon binary is provided by the client pkg, rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd nfs-client-1.2.1-8.3.1.x86_64 but is ONLY launched if (a) nfsserver service is running -- NOT required, necessary, or even recommended for a client-only box, (b) nfs service is running -- which does NOT launch unless there is an an NFS mount in /etc/fstab if nfs4 mount is being made on a client-only box, by autofs with NO /etc/fstab nfs mount, idmapd fails to launch, and UID/GID are incorrectly mapped. not sure which is the right approach, but either: (1) a standalone /etc/init.d/idmapd script needs to be created (2) idmadp launch needs to be added to /etc/init.d/autofs see here, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-01/msg04616.html for prior description/discussion of this problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.