Bug 801920 - NFSv4 mount: Warning: rpc.idmapd appears not to be running.
Summary: NFSv4 mount: Warning: rpc.idmapd appears not to be running.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 708253
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nfs-utils
Version: 5.9
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Steve Dickson
QA Contact: yanfu,wang
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-09 20:37 UTC by Steve Dickson
Modified: 2012-03-14 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-03-14 16:51:36 UTC
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Description Steve Dickson 2012-03-09 20:37:09 UTC 
Description of problem:
The following warning will appear on all v4 mounts:
  Warning: rpc.idmapd appears not to be running.
           All uids will be mapped to the nobody uid.

The cause of this warning is due to the /var/lock/subsys/rpcidmapd
is no longer created when the rpc.idmapd daemon is started. Due to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710020 the file that is 
now created is /var/lock/subsys/rpc.idmap

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nfs-utils-1.0.9-60.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.mount -tnfs4 server:/export /mnt
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Comment 3 Steve Dickson 2012-03-14 16:51:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 708253 ***
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