• Re: NFS problem

    From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Friday, January 02, 2026 17:20:44
    On 01/01/2026 16:20, Grimble wrote:
    Setting up a new installation of Mageia after disk failure. Having
    trouble sharing a raid array with another machine on the LAN.
    systemctl start rpcbind fails:
    rpcbind.socket: Failed to create listening socket (0.0.0.0:111): Address already in use
    but ss cannot find any process using port 111
    Any ideas?
    This is not an rpcbind problem - the other machine (nmap) shows that
    port 111 isopen for rpcbind.
    It's a new form of dependency hell.
    systemctl start nfs-server gives:
    nfs-server.service: Found ordering cycle on mnt-raid.mount/start nfs-server.service: Found dependency on nfs-server.service/start nfs-server.service: Unable to break cycle starting with nfs-server.service/start
    Requested transaction contains an unfixable cyclic ordering dependency: Transaction order is cyclic.

    Since I haven't done anything affecting systemd services, it look looks
    like a bug. Surely this must have been seen before?
    --
    Grimble
    Registered Linux User #450547
    Machine 'Bach' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.116-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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  • From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Tuesday, January 06, 2026 13:16:57
    On 02/01/2026 17:20, Grimble wrote:
    On 01/01/2026 16:20, Grimble wrote:
    Setting up a new installation of Mageia after disk failure. Having
    trouble sharing a raid array with another machine on the LAN.
    systemctl start rpcbind fails:
    rpcbind.socket: Failed to create listening socket (0.0.0.0:111):
    Address already in use
    but ss cannot find any process using port 111
    Any ideas?
    This is not an rpcbind problem - the other machine (nmap) shows that
    port 111 isopen for rpcbind.
    It's a new form of dependency hell.
    systemctl start nfs-server gives:
    nfs-server.service: Found ordering cycle on mnt-raid.mount/start nfs-server.service: Found dependency on nfs-server.service/start nfs-server.service: Unable to break cycle starting with nfs- server.service/start
    Requested transaction contains an unfixable cyclic ordering dependency: Transaction order is cyclic.

    Since I haven't done anything affecting systemd services, it look looks
    like a bug. Surely this must have been seen before?

    Not sure how, but there is no longer a problem. I used systemd to mount
    my raid array, after which I could start nfs-server and normal service
    has been resumed.
    --
    Grimble
    Machine 'Haydn' running Plasma 5.27.10 on 6.6.116-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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