we see the following error in our log files: Apr 15 13:38:59 localhost rpc.statd[1260]: Failed to insert: creating /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm/ws.localdomain: Permission denied Apr 15 13:38:59 localhost rpc.statd[1260]: STAT_FAIL to m7674 for SM_MON of 10.29.250.3 According the following man page rpc.statd http://linux.die.net/man/8/rpc.statd is using the following directory: /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm directory containing monitor list But this directory is not created: root@m6933:/etc/init.d> rpm -qf /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm root@m6933:/etc/init.d> But instead the following directory is created: root@m6933:/etc/init.d> rpm -qf /var/lib/nfs/sm nfs-utils-client-1.2.8-r1.0.x86_64
$ configure --enable-board=intel-x86-64 \
--enable-rootfs=glibc_std --enable-kernel=preempt_rt \
--enable-jobs=1 --enable-parallel-pkgbuilds=4 \
--enable-rm-work=yes --enable-rm-oldimgs=yes \
--enable-reconfig --with-sstate-dir=/path/to/sstate \
--with-rcpl-version=0017
$ make fs
$ cd export/dist
$ ls var/lib/nfs/
.etab.lock export-lock sm/ statd/ xtab
.xtab.lock rmtab sm.bak/ state
etab rpc_pipefs/ smtab v4recovery/
$ ls var/lib/nfs/statd/
state
