Starting NFS Daemon failed
When we trying to restart NFS service on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 but its showing
Shutting down NFS mountd: [FAILED]
Shutting down NFS daemon: [ OK ]
Shutting down NFS quotas: [ OK ]
Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ]
Starting NFS services: [ OK ]
Starting NFS quotas: [ OK ]
Starting NFS daemon: [FAILED]
We already try by restarting portmap service but still problem is there.
So please suggest any recommendation for this issue.
Responses
Did you check /var/log/messages to see what it wrote when you tried the start? (The stop can FAIL simply because it isn't running when you try the stop.)
Failing that have you examined the flow of /etc/init.d/nfs to see what is happening when it kicks off the daemon and do that yourself from command line to see if it gives you any information?
P.S. RHEL5 is going EOL April 2017 and there are already upstream changes such as support for TLSv1.1 that aren't being back-ported as they're viewed as enhancements. You really need to be planning for moving off of RHEL5 to at least RHEL6 or better yet RHEL7. RHEL5.3 is particularly old - latest is something like RHEL5.11
The NFS daemon is rpc.nfsd and shows up in "ps -ef" as nfs and nfs4 (unless you specify other options). What happens if you simply run rpc.nfsd from command line?
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