Mounting NFS filesystem fails with an error 'mount.nfs: No such device'

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Issue

  • Unable to mount NFS share. Getting below error:

    # mount 10.0.0.1:/NFS/Share /mountpoint -vvv
    [..]
    mount.nfs: timeout set for Wed Jul 31 12:27:18 2019
    mount.nfs: trying text-based options 'vers=4,addr=10.0.0.1,clientaddr=10.0.0.2'
    mount.nfs: mount(2): No such device
    mount.nfs: No such device
    
  • NFS share fails to mount and below messages are logged in /var/log/messages:

    Jul 29 10:11:30 hostname modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting nfs (/lib/modules/<kernelversion>/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko): Accessing a corrupted shared library
    Jul 29 10:11:30 hostname kernel: Verify ELF error (assertion 69)
    Jul 29 10:11:30 hostname kernel: Module failed ELF checks
    Jul 29 10:11:30 hostname modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting nfs (/lib/modules/<kernelversion>/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko): Accessing a corrupted shared library
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • NFS client

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