Description of problem: The nfs-utils-1.3.1-5.0.fc21 systemd service files in /usr/lib/systemd/system are incorrectly requiring rpcbind.target instead of rpcbind.service. As described in "man:systemd.special" the rpcbind.target is a "special passive system unit" and should only have an "After=rpcbind.target" line for services that "consume" the services of rpcbind. Having a "Requires=rpcbind.target" might be appropriate only in the file /usr/lib/systemd/system/rpcbind.service ("Wants=" is recommended instead of "Requires=" for the service that "pulls in" a passive target). The nfs-utils systemd services that use RPC should have either "Requires=rpcbind.service" if RPC is mandatory or "Wants=rpcbind.service" if RPC is optional, and either "After=rpcbind.service" or "After=rpcbind.target". [R]pcbind.service currently does not "pull in" rpcbind.target as it should (see Bug 1183970) so "After=rpcbind.service" is preferable to "After=rpcbind.target" until that is fixed (and maybe even then). The nfs-utils systemd services that use other passive targets (e.g. nss-lookup.target) have the same problem as with rpcbind.target. Terminal commands and output follow. ############################################################################### [root@archer ~]# rpm -q nfs-utils rpcbind systemd nfs-utils-1.3.1-5.0.fc21.x86_64 rpcbind-0.2.2-1.1.fc21.x86_64 systemd-216-14.fc21.x86_64 ############################################################################### [root@archer ~]# grep rpcbind $(rpm -ql nfs-utils | grep /usr/lib/systemd/system) | grep -v 'wants$' /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-lock.service:Requires=nss-lookup.target rpcbind.target /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-lock.service:After=network.target nss-lookup.target rpcbind.target /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-server.service:Requires= network.target proc-fs-nfsd.mount rpcbind.target /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-server.service:After= network.target proc-fs-nfsd.mount rpcbind.target nfs-mountd.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs.service:Requires= network.target proc-fs-nfsd.mount rpcbind.target /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs.service:After= network.target proc-fs-nfsd.mount rpcbind.target nfs-mountd.service grep: /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs.target.wants: Is a directory /usr/lib/systemd/system/rpc-statd.service:Requires=nss-lookup.target rpcbind.target /usr/lib/systemd/system/rpc-statd.service:After=network.target nss-lookup.target rpcbind.target ############################################################################### [root@archer ~]# man -P cat systemd.special | grep -A4 'SPECIAL PASSIVE SYSTEM UNITS' | sed 's/^ *//' SPECIAL PASSIVE SYSTEM UNITS A number of special system targets are defined that can be used to properly order boot-up of optional services. These targets are generally not part of the initial boot transaction, unless they are explicitly pulled in by one of the implementing services. Note specifically that these passive target units are generally not pulled in by the consumer of a service, but by the provider of the service. This means: a consuming service should order itself after these targets (as appropriate), but not pull it in. A providing service should order itself before these targets (as appropriate) and pull it in (via a Wants= type dependency). ############################################################################### [root@archer ~]# man -P cat systemd.special | grep -C1 portmapper | sed 's/^ *//' rpcbind.target The portmapper/rpcbind pulls in this target and orders itself before it, to indicate its availability. systemd automatically adds dependencies of type After= for this target unit to all SysV init script service units with an LSB header referring to the "$portmap" facility.
Not sure why rpcbind.service was replace with rpcbind.target in nfs-server.service in Fedora 22. Now "service nfs-server start" don't bring up nfs server, this worked fine in Fedora 21. Doing: service rpcbind start service nfs-server start things starts to work in Fedora 22 too.
I guess I don't see the problem here... Everything seems to be working for me.
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(In reply to Terje Røsten from comment #1) > Not sure why rpcbind.service was replace with rpcbind.target in > nfs-server.service in Fedora 22. > > Now "service nfs-server start" don't bring up nfs server, this worked fine > in Fedora 21. > > Doing: > > service rpcbind start > service nfs-server start > > things starts to work in Fedora 22 too. this was the fix to this problem. commit 4fabfcd082069a16ea8769b9ea9344fc15011366 Author: Steve Dickson <steved> Date: Mon Nov 9 11:28:30 2015 -0500 systemd: Decouple the starting and stopping of rpcbind/nfs-server Commit b98f2af15 introduced a regression that cause the starting and stop of rpcbind and the nfs-server to be depended on each other The starting of the NFS server should start rpcbind but bring rpcbind down should not bring the NFS server down. Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved>