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aronchick
Asked: 2014-09-29 22:39:16 +0800 CST

Since Upgrading NFS and Ubuntu to 14.04, All NFS Mounts Are Failing

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Since upgrading my Ubuntu Machine, all my NFS mounts are hanging. I checked the syslog, and I'm seeing this now:

Sep 29 04:29:10 ip-10-10-10-10 kernel: [ 9589.594814] RPC: AUTH_GSS upcall failed. Please check user daemon is running.

All other methods of debugging NFS still show it up and running (telnet, rpcinfo, etc). What is the AUTH_GSS service and why does it need to be running? I've been running around on Google, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't already be going.

** UPDATE **

In addition to this, I'm now seeing the following on the server:

Sep 29 05:55:12 ip-10-10-10-10 rpc.gssd[860]: ERROR: can't open /run/rpc_pipefs/gssd/clntXX/info: No such file or directory
Sep 29 05:55:12 ip-10-10-10-10 rpc.gssd[860]: ERROR: failed to read service info

** FURTHER DEBUGGING **

To be clear, it's absolutely running, and accepting connections from the client machine. I'm able to telnet over to 111 and 2049 from the client machine with no issue.

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1 Answers

  1. GSSAPI or the Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface is used by NFS (versions 3 and 4) when using Kerberos for authentication and encryption.

    The ubuntu config file /etc/default/nfs-common has a few lines about this:

    # Do you want to start the gssd daemon? It is required for Kerberos mounts.
NEED_GSSD=

    Either configure Kerberos and GSS or make sure you don't use them.

    There's a related bug report on launchpad that suggests either setting NEED_GSSD=yes or disabling GSS by blacklisting the rpcsec_gss_krb5 module (in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, after which you need a restart).

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