NFS Server has random NFS failures, rpc.mountd process dead
Issue
- NFS services stop abruptly
# service nfs statuscommand showsrpc.mountd [pid xxxxx] is dead but subsys locked- Entry in
/var/log/messagesshowsrpc.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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