Bug 152151 - Replace NFS error message "clnt_create: RPC: Program not registered" with something useful
Summary: Replace NFS error message "clnt_create: RPC: Program not registered" with som...
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: File System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: NFS (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: Trond Myklebust
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Reported: 2016-08-13 10:25 UTC by Karl Richter
Modified: 2016-08-13 13:30 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 4.6.5
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Regression: No
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Description Karl Richter 2016-08-13 10:25:49 UTC
The NFS error message "clnt_create: RPC: Program not registered" is popular (make a search engine query for proof) and is quite unhelpful. Please replace it with a message explaining what error occurred (i.e. what is expected to occur and what happened instead) and probably instructions how to fix it, e.g. `The client RPC program [/path/to/binary] crashes with return code 2. A running instance is expected to listen on port n in order to make an XMLRPC call to the server [server]`. I'm pretty sure that the message wants to tell us something like that, so why not just do it.
Comment 1 Trond Myklebust 2016-08-13 13:30:43 UTC
This has absolutely nothing at all to do with the kernel.

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