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From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: shutdown from the console emulator
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.081145.3797@servalan.uucp>
Date: 23 Mar 91 08:11:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.200544.21227@linus.mitre.org> <3006@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
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liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:

>In <1991Mar12.200544.21227@linus.mitre.org> kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers) 
>writes:

>>shutdown:  callrpc RPC: port mapper failure

>The reason you see this is tied up with the following:

>>I don't have an ethernet interface.

>So you didn't install the bnet code into the kernel, so there is no socket 
>stuff, so all of the SunRPC services fail immediately. 

  Funny, but I don't have an ethernet interface, and I *did* install the bnet
code.  (Unless I'm very much mistaken, X11R4 won't run at all unless you have
the bnet code installed).  I still see the message whenever I shutdown.  
As you say, the message is essentially harmless, but just installing the 
bnet drivers won't cure it...
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