NFS service fails to start due to dependency issue.
Issue
- Why am I not able to restart NFS service?
- Unable to restart NFS service due to dependency issues.
[root@hostname ~]# systemctl status nfs
? nfs-server.service - NFS server and services
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/nfs-server.service.d
??order-with-mounts.conf
Active: inactive (dead)
Oct 09 21:05:13 hostname systemd[1]: Unit nfs-server.service cannot be reloaded because it is inactive.
Oct 09 21:18:13 hostname systemd[1]: Dependency failed for NFS server and services.
Oct 09 21:18:13 hostname systemd[1]: Job nfs-server.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
- NFS service fails to start even after multiple restart attempts.
- Dependency issue while starting NFS service.
Oct 9 20:49:34 hostname mount: mount: unknown filesystem type 'nfsd'
Oct 9 20:49:34 hostname systemd: proc-fs-nfsd.mount mount process exited, code=exited status=32
Oct 9 20:49:34 hostname systemd: Failed to mount NFSD configuration filesystem.
Oct 9 20:49:34 hostname systemd: Dependency failed for NFS Mount Daemon.
Oct 9 20:49:34 hostname systemd: Dependency failed for NFS server and services.
Oct 9 20:49:34 hostname systemd: Dependency failed for NFSv4 ID-name mapping service.
Oct 9 20:49:34 hostname systemd: Job nfs-idmapd.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Oct 9 20:49:34 hostname systemd: Job nfs-server.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- NFS
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