Puppet will not start with message "Error: Could not start Service[nfslock]"

Issue

• While trying to set up Puppet, start fails with the following message:

# puppet agent -t
Warning: Local environment: "production" doesn't match server specified node environment "test1", switching agent to "test1".
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Info: Caching catalog for test1.example.com
Info: Applying configuration version '7e6282c55e07b1bab9e355378125d7c0ceeeac67'
Error: Could not start Service[nfslock]: Execution of '/bin/systemctl start nfs-lock' returned 1: Job for rpc-statd.service failed. See 'systemctl status rpc-statd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
Wrapped exception:
Execution of '/bin/systemctl start nfs-lock' returned 1: Job for rpc-statd.service failed. See 'systemctl status rpc-statd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
Error: /Stage[main]/Nfs::Client::Redhat::Service/Service[nfslock]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[nfslock]: Execution of '/bin/systemctl start nfs-lock' returned 1: Job for rpc-statd.service failed. See 'systemctl status rpc-statd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.