After upgrading a system from wheezy to jessie, nfs-common failed to (re)start. Version: 1:1.2.8-6. Reinstalling rpcbind, nfs-common, nfs-kernel-server, libnfsidmap2 did not help. Startup message: [FAIL] Starting NFS common utilities: statd idmapd failed! In syslog I noticed: rpc.idmapd[6984]: main: open(/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs): No such file or directory I manually created a directory /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs and the problem was solved.