RHEL 6 NFSv4 access fails with: Socket operation on non-socket

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Issue

  • NFS access fails with: Socket operation on non-socket
  • cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/yyy/xxx/2': Socket operation on non-socket
  • kernel: nfs: RPC call returned error 88

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta 1 (NFS Server and NFS client)
  • NFSv4

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