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Issue

NFS services stop abruptly
# service nfs status command shows rpc.mountd [pid xxxxx] is dead but subsys locked
Entry in /var/log/messages shows rpc.mountd[xxxxx]: couldn't open /var/lib/nfs/etab

Environment

Observed on

NFS server:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8 (Santiago)
- kernel-2.6.32-642.6.2.el6.x86_64
- nfs-utils-1.2.3-70.el6_8.2.x86_64

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