Why does NFS daemon fail?

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Issue

  • When NFS starts, it gives the error as follows:

> /etc/init.d/nfs start Starting NFS [ OK ] 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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