Bug#740491: nfs-common: fails to upgrade (action "restart" failed)

[Vincent van Leeuwen <debian@vinz.nl>]

Hello,

I have seen this behaviour too after upgrading my testing installation 
yesterday. In my case I'm not using systemd, so the output is somewhat 
different (the dist-upgrade doesn't notice anything is wrong so doesn't fail) 
but the result is the same: statd won't start so nfs-common doesn't work.

Reverting to previously working nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server packages 
didn't solve the problem, so I digged deeper.

Downgrading libtirpc1 to 0.2.2-5 fixed it for me, so I will open a bugreport 
there.


This was the output when it wasn't working btw:

# /etc/init.d/nfs-common start
Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed!

>From my syslog:

Mar  3 01:11:48 localhost rpc.statd[3117]: Version 1.2.8 starting
Mar  3 01:11:48 localhost sm-notify[3119]: Version 1.2.8 starting
Mar  3 01:11:48 localhost sm-notify[3119]: Already notifying clients; Exiting!
Mar  3 01:11:48 localhost rpc.statd[3117]: failed to create RPC listeners, 
exiting
Mar  3 01:11:57 localhost kernel: [29037808.679802] svc: failed to register 
lockdv1 RPC service (errno 13).
Mar  3 01:11:57 localhost rpc.nfsd[3145]: error starting threads: errno 13 
(Permission denied)


Kind regards,

Vincent van Leeuwen