Description of problem: On the current rawhide an attempt to run service rpcidmapd start results in the following: Starting rpcidmapd (via systemctl): Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details. [FAILED] System logs do not say much more beyond "Unit rpcidmapd.service entered failed state." and trying to follow advice about 'systemctl status' brings up only "Too few arguments." in a response. 'service rpcidmapd status' repeats the above in a more wordy manner. Not that enlightning. Actually boot messages give somewhat more: Starting Permit User Sessions... rpc.idmapd: libnfsidmap: requested translation method, 'nsswitch', is not available rpc.idmapd: Unable to create name to user id mappings. Only now something broke logging that in /var/log/boot.log and this is hard to find. Any idea what is responsible for that bogosity? Besides nothings seems to be wrong with /lib64/libnfsidmap/nsswitch.so library. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nfs-utils-1.2.3-5.fc15.x86_64 libnfsidmap-0.24-2.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: always
I'm seeing this as well. /var/log/messages has: Dec 15 18:53:34 v02 rpc.idmapd[1109]: libnfsidmap: using (default) domain: math.uh.edu Dec 15 18:53:34 v02 rpc.idmapd[1109]: libnfsidmap: Unable to load plugin: /usr/lib64/libnfsidmap/nsswitch.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Dec 15 18:53:34 v02 rpc.idmapd[1109]: libnfsidmap: requested translation method, 'nsswitch', is not available Dec 15 18:53:35 v02 systemd[1]: rpcidmapd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Dec 15 18:53:35 v02 systemd[1]: Unit rpcidmapd.service entered failed state. /usr/lib64/libnfsidmap is empty, but /lib64/libnfsidmap exists and has the proper stuff in it. I made a symlink and restarted and the daemon starts. nfs-utils-1.2.3-6.fc15.x86_64 libnfsidmap-0.24-2.fc15.x86_64
This is fixed with the latest version of libnfsidmap-0.24-3.fc15