[CentOS] CentOS 7.1 NFS Client Issues - rpc.statd / rpcbind

Mon Aug 31 10:26:06 UTC 2015

On 08/31/2015 05:48 AM, Mark Selby wrote:
> That is the thing - rpc.statd does have rpcbind a pre-req. It looks like
> systemd is not handling this correctly. Just wondering if anyone knows a
> good way to fix.
> 
> root at ls2 /usr/lib/systemd/system 110#  grep Requires rpc-statd.service
> Requires=nss-lookup.target rpcbind.target

This is a bug in the NFS service configuration files. You need to copy
rpc-statd.service over to /etc/systemd/system and change the
"rpcbind.target" to "rpcbind.service". Don't forget the "systemctl
daemon-reload" afterwards if you don't reboot.
See this bug for details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171603

Regards,
  Dennis