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I'm running CentOS 7.0.1406, and have problems with NFSv4, authenticating using krb5p. Neither idmapd nor gssd would start automatically. I could fix the former by doing systemctl enable nfs-idmap. However, I could not figure out how to make gssd start automatically. /etc/systemd/system has no mention of gssd, and /lib/systemd/system/rpcgssd.service gets installed, but is apparently unused (systemctl enable rpcgssd says Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory).

I can manually start gssd just fine (rpc.gssd start). How do I get it to start at reboot?

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  • Where did you get the "apparently unused" from?
    – grawity_u1686
    Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 19:49
  • @grawity: see my edit. If I want to refer to this service, it doesn't find the file. I actually straced it, and the enable command only looks into /etc/systemd and /run/systemd, but not /lib/systemd.
    – Martin v. Löwis
    Commented Mar 17, 2015 at 20:20

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I had the exact same error message on Fedora 20, and found this (currently) open Redhat bug: RFE: allow systemctl enable work on symlinked units

Just like you, I could service start rpcgssd, but not chkconfig rpcgssd on or systemctl enable rpcgssd. However, my rpcgssd.service file (in /usr/lib/systemd/system) was a symlink to /usr/lib/systemd/nfs-secure.service.

So, to fix, I ran systemctl enable nfs-secure instead, which bypassed the issue with symlinks listed in the above bug report.

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Add SECURE_NFS="yes" to /etc/sysconfig/nfs.

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