Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 149579
rpc.svcgssd fails to start
Last modified: 2017-09-25 10:02:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: rpc.svcgssd failed to start, complaining unable to open a /proc/net/rpc/auth.rpcsec.init/channel file, though the script under init.d reports status OK. The /proc/net/rpc/auth.rpcsec.init/channel really doesn't exist, neither does the directory auth.rpcsec.init. I assume they should be generated by some kernel modules. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nfs-utils-1.0.6-39 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./usr/sbin/rpc.svcgssd -f -v Actual Results: WARNING: unable to locate function krb5_gss_internal_release_oid in krb5 mechanism library: there will be problems if multiple mechanisms are used! failed to open /proc/net/rpc/auth.rpcsec.init/channel Additional info: I installed nfs-utils 1.0.6-46, it says the same thing. I did a goole, somebody reported a similiar bug under Fedora-2, said this is fixed in release 1.0.6-30. I am just wondering whether this bug belongs to nfs-utils or kernel. BTW, the kernel that runs on my box is: 2.6.9-1.648_ELsmp The system is: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3.90 (Nahant)
I found out the cause of this problem. This happened cause the nfs start up script doesn't load module rpcsec_gss_krb5 After reading nfsv4 mailling list and try it by hand, rpc.svcgssd is able to start up successfully. P.S. This bug is reproducable also on Enterprise AS 4.0. Somebody should fix it, it costs me 3 days.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149645 ***
This is fixed in nfs-utils-1.0.6.51