Unable to start NFS service
Issue
- Unable to start
NFSservice on RHEL6, it fails with the following error:
# service nfs restart
Shutting down NFS mountd: [ FAILED ]
Shutting down NFS daemon: [ FAILED ]
Shutting down NFS quotas: [ FAILED ]
Shutting down NFS services: [ OK ]
Starting NFS services:[ OK ]
Starting NFS quotas: Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG, RQUOTAVERS, udp). [FAILED]
Starting NFS daemon: rpc.nfsd: writing fd to kernel failed: errno 111 (Connection refused)
rpc.nfsd: unable to set any sockets for nfsd [ FAILED ]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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