Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 732968
NFS server will not start with nfs-utils-1.2.4-6.fc16
Last modified: 2011-09-09 13:12:34 EDT
Description of problem: # systemctl start nfs-server.service fails to start server: # systemctl status nfs-server.service shows nfs-server.service - NFS Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nfs-server.service; enabled) Active: failed since Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:28:14 -0400; 20min ago Process: 8054 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd $RPCNFSDARGS ${RPCNFSDCOUNT} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 8053 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/exportfs -r (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 8051 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad $RPCRQUOTADOPTS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 8049 ExecStartPre=/usr/lib/nfs-utils/scripts/nfs-server.preconfig (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/nfs-server.service The Error in /var/log/messages is rpc.nfsd[8054]: error starting threads: errno 38 (Function not implemented) which means no thread count is being given on the command line. Looking at that /lib/systemd/system/nfs-server.service script: Unit] Description=NFS Server After=network.target rpcbind.service [Service] Type=forking EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/nfs ExecStartPre=/usr/lib/nfs-utils/scripts/nfs-server.preconfig ExecStartPre=-/usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad $RPCRQUOTADOPTS ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/exportfs -r ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd $RPCNFSDARGS ${RPCNFSDCOUNT} ExecStartPost=/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd $RPCMOUNTDOPTS ExecStartPost=-/usr/lib/nfs-utils/scripts/nfs-server.postconfig ExecStop=/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd 0 ExecStopPost=/usr/sbin/exportfs -f [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target The ${RPCNFSDCOUNT} is defined in the -/etc/sysconfig/nfs script as RPCNFSDCOUNT=8 so it appears EnvironmentFile mechanize is not correctly defining or export variables correctly.
It turns out that systemd redirects messages logged to stderr to /dev/null by default, which means any and all start up error were lost. Once I figured that out, added 'StandardError=syslog+console' to all the service files which enabled me to see why rpc.nfsd was failing. The problem was /proc/fs/nfsd was not being mounted before rpc.nfsd was being started. So added the mount to the nfs-server.preconfig file which fixed the problem.
Now I'm getting the following errors: rpc.nfsd[978]: rpc.nfsd: unable to bind inet TCP socket: errno 13 (Permission denied) rpc.nfsd[978]: rpc.nfsd: unable to bind inet6 TCP socket: errno 13 (Permission denied) rpc.nfsd[978]: rpc.nfsd: unable to set any sockets for nfsd These error go away when I put SELinux in permissive mode, which I will document in another bz...
Is nfsd another filesystem to automount? I guess it doesn't matter as much for rpc_pipefs as nfsd's the only user.
nfs-utils-1.2.4-7.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nfs-utils-1.2.4-7.fc16
Package nfs-utils-1.2.4-7.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing nfs-utils-1.2.4-7.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nfs-utils-1.2.4-7.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
nfs-utils-1.2.4-8.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nfs-utils-1.2.4-8.fc16
nfs-utils-1.2.4-8.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.