Can't start portmap service in RHEL 6?

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to start portmap service to configure a server as an NFS client:
[root@localhost ~]\# service portmap start  
portmap: unrecognized service

[root@localhost ~]\# service portmap start  
Starting portmapper: portmap: relocation error: portmap: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
                                                            [FAILED]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6.1 and later
  • NFS version 4

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