The fix for LIN6-10061 - is incomplete. We need to reflect the changes of LIN6-10061 to actually be used in other files of nfs-utils. in /etc/init.d/nfscommon we do : test -n "$NFS_STATEDIR" || NFS_STATEDIR=/var/lib/nfs [...] create_directories(){ echo -n 'creating NFS state directory: ' mkdir -p "$NFS_STATEDIR" ( cd "$NFS_STATEDIR" umask 077 mkdir -p rpc_pipefs mkdir -p sm sm.bak statd sm and sm.bak should be in the statd folder.