Linux – NFS daemon not starting up with error message “Kernel does not have pseudo root support”

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My nfs daemon is not starting up anymore. I see the following entries in the syslog:

Sep 26 18:21:10 VOXWEBPRODDHNCGN001 mountd[3401]: Kernel does not have pseudo root support.
Sep 26 18:21:10 VOXWEBPRODDHNCGN001 mountd[3401]: NFS v4 mounts will be disabled unless fsid=0
Sep 26 18:21:10 VOXWEBPRODDHNCGN001 mountd[3401]: is specfied in /etc/exports file.

What can be the problem?

Best Answer

Looks like you don't have NFS server support built into your kernel. Check the output of the following command:

grep NFSD /boot/config-`uname -r`

You need CONFIG_NFSD=m or CONFIG_NFSD=y.

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