After updating to nfs-utils-2.3.3-51.el8 , nfs-mountd service failed to start.

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Issue

  • After updating nfs-util package to nfs-utils-2.3.3-51.el8, nfs-mountd service failed to start due to the following error.
Sep 19 02:05:41 localhost systemd[1]: nfs-mountd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 19 02:05:41 localhost rpc.mountd[1730]: Unable to watch /proc/fs/nfsd/clients: No such file or directory
Sep 19 02:05:41 localhost systemd[1]: nfs-mountd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Environment

  • NFS server
  • nfs-utils-2.3.3-51.el8.x86_64
  • Before kernel-4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64

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