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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:

> 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.

  hmmmmm ... i can vouch that i'm getting the same thing on my f20
system.  manually starting and stopping seems to work fine, but the
"enable" operation generates what the OP reported. odd ...

[root at localhost rpjday]# systemctl disable nfs
[root at localhost rpjday]# systemctl enable nfs
Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory
[root at localhost rpjday]# systemctl start nfs
[root at localhost rpjday]# showmount -e
Export list for localhost.localdomain:
... snip correct output here ...
#

  so, yes, start and stop seem fine, but enable isn't working well.

rday

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