Arch Linux

Description:

I'm unable to start NFS server on ArchLinux host without manually adding user 'rpc' for rpcbind daemon.
I took care to check this twice, and with removal of all configuration files related to package and remounting pseudo file systems like /proc/fs/nfsd .


Additional info:

nfs-utils version:

Name : nfs-utils
Version : 1.3.1-1
Description : Support programs for Network File Systems
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://nfs.sourceforge.net
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : glibc e2fsprogs rpcbind libtirpc>=0.2.1 librpcsecgss>=0.19-2 nfsidmap libevent>=2.0.10 device-mapper
Optional Deps : sqlite: for nfsdcltrack usage [installed]
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 999.00 KiB
Packager : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Thu Oct 2 22:21:42 2014
Install Date : Mon Jan 12 00:32:33 2015
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature

Configuration files were unmodified.

Steps to reproduce:

1. install nfs-utils
2. try to start rpcbind (systemctl start rpcbind)
3. rpcbind will fail and leave message in syslog:
<host & date> rpcbind[XXXXX]: cannot get uid of 'rpc': Success

where XXXXX is PID of started rpcbind instance.

I resolved this problem by adding user 'rpc' to system. However I'm not sure whether it should be added by package.