# systemctl start nfs.service works -- # systemctl enable nfs.service doesn't [NOW UNSOLVED]

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/11/14 05:54, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 17:55 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> Setting up an nfs server on a laptop running Fedora-20, I get the
>> following perplexing results:
>>
>>         # systemctl start nfs.service
>>         # systemctl enable nfs.service
>>         Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory
>>
>> Sure enough, as promised, nfs works up to the next reboot, then it stops
>> working.  Is the system missing a module?  Or what?
> I had thought that enabling nfs-server.service to which nfs.server is
> linked would enable nfs.server; but it doesn't seem to.  Here's the
> latest:
>         # ll /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs.service
>         lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 18 Feb  1
>         18:54 /usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs.service -> nfs-server.service
>         # systemctl list-unit-files | grep nfs
>         proc-fs-nfsd.mount                          static  
>         var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount                static  
>         nfs-blkmap.service                          disabled
>         nfs-idmap.service                           disabled
>         nfs-lock.service                            enabled 
>         nfs-mountd.service                          enabled 
>         nfs-rquotad.service                         disabled
>         nfs-secure-server.service                   disabled
>         nfs-secure.service                          disabled
>         nfs-server.service                          enabled  <==== 
>         nfs.service                                 disabled <====
>         nfslock.service                             disabled
>         nfs.target                                  enabled 
> And in fact nfs networking doesn't work till I invoke:
>         # systemctl start nfs.service
> (Note that nfs.target is enabled.)
>
> What's going on?  How can I fix it
>

In answer to "What is going on"....  Yesterday I asked if you have the output of

systemctl status nfs-server.service

*before* you started it manually. 



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