CentOS - Feb 2019 - Restarting nfs-server using systemctl resulted in error

Hi All,

I am having strange issues with NFS server on CentOS 7.2. I am unable to
restart the nfs-server:

[root at hostname ~]# systemctl restart nfs-server

** (pkttyagent:20603): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent:
Timeout was reached
Error registering authentication agent: Timeout was reached
(g-io-error-quark, 24)
Failed to restart nfs-server.service: Connection timed out

Googling doesn't seem to yield answers. How do I restart this service?

Sincerely,
Nurdiyana Ali.

On 2/25/19 3:18 AM, Nurdiyana Ali wrote:
> I am having strange issues with NFS server on CentOS 7.2.

(Obligatory: "7.2" means you haven't applied patches in a very
long
time, and probably have a large number of security vulnerabilities on 
this system as well as bugs you're likely to hit and then ask about 
here.? Please update for your sake and ours)

> [root at hostname ~]# systemctl restart nfs-server
>
> ** (pkttyagent:20603): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent:
> Timeout was reached

I think that's the sort of thing you'd see if you updated the dbus 
packages.? You'd need to restart the dbus service, which will break some 
things.? You're better off rebooting this time, if a dbus update is the 
cause.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 9:19 AM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 2/25/19 3:18 AM, Nurdiyana Ali wrote:
> > I am having strange issues with NFS server on CentOS 7.2.
>
>
> (Obligatory: "7.2" means you haven't applied patches in a
very long
> time, and probably have a large number of security vulnerabilities on
> this system as well as bugs you're likely to hit and then ask about
> here.  Please update for your sake and ours)
>
>
> > [root at hostname ~]# systemctl restart nfs-server
> >
> > ** (pkttyagent:20603): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication
> agent:
> > Timeout was reached
>
>
> I think that's the sort of thing you'd see if you updated the dbus
> packages.  You'd need to restart the dbus service, which will break
some
> things.  You're better off rebooting this time, if a dbus update is the
> cause.
>
> We rebooted the server and we can now start nfs-server service. Thank you
> for your assistance.
>
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