NFS kernel server: "portmapper is not running"
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 2:53 am
[PROBLEM]
Installing nfs-kernel-server package on Debian 8 (raspbian).
Checking its status using "service nfs-kernel-server status" returns a message containing the following warning:
Thanks to a Wiki page about Raspberry Pi (on eclipse.org), the following steps solved the problem:
Purge rpcbind and nfs-common:
Restart the services:
Yay! 
Installing nfs-kernel-server package on Debian 8 (raspbian).
Checking its status using "service nfs-kernel-server status" returns a message containing the following warning:
[SOLUTION]nfs-kernel-server[28483]: Not starting: portmapper is not running ... (warning).
Thanks to a Wiki page about Raspberry Pi (on eclipse.org), the following steps solved the problem:
Purge rpcbind and nfs-common:
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$ sudo apt-get purge rpcbind nfs-common
$ sudo apt-get install rpcbind nfs-kernel-server nfs-common
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$ service rpcbind restart
$ service nfs-kernel-server restart