Re: rpc-statd won't start for user NFS mounts

[svilen dobrev <az@svilendobrev.com>]

Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski@...> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42491
> This one I can reproduce, doing NFS3 user,noauto setting in fstab makes
> it impossible to mount it as user.
> - The systemd service nfs-client.target is loaded.
> - rpcbind comes up by doing the mount
> - rpc-statd is not coming up because of authentification error.
> Failed to start rpc-statd.service: Interactive authentication required.
> What is the correct way to solve this?
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> greetings
> tpowa
 
i stepped on this after upgrade today.. (and it's nfs4).
i get these in journalctl -xe:
.. rpc.statd[686]: Opening /var/run/rpc.statd.pid failed: Permission denied
then i tried $ sudo touch /var/run/rpc.statd.pid
and then mount suddenly works.

if that workaround gives any clue..