FC9 - recent upgrade breaks NFS - SElinux issue

[Bill Davidsen]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> I get messages indicating "NFS statd failed" and messsages says it 
>>> can't register. Is this caused by the dbus "fix" or ???
>>>
>>> More later, I wasn't planning on taking a drive in an ice storm 
>>> tonight, but I may yet.
>>>
>> No, dbus and nfs are not linked.
>>
>> Refer to this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448898
>>
>> You should probably comment on that bug or open a new one.
>>
> Looks to be a bit different, I'll have to poke a bit before I can offer 
> a decent bug report, but rpc.statd isn't starting, which makes all of my 
> NFS mounts fail. I checked against another system which works, the 
> permissions (-lZ) are the same, so it doesn't appear to be a simple 
> thing like owner, permissions, or attributed.
> 
Another SElinux issue, the rpcbind application is not expected to setgid, so 
SElinux prevents it.

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