Seems to be related to ipv6, on the machines that failed we have ipv6 enabled but no ipv6 network interfaces and no ::1 available.

rpcbind crashes trying to bind to ::1 I think.

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From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 24 May 2017 13:10:48
To: LEROY Christine 208562
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: sl6 last rpcbind and libtirpc pb

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:40 AM, LEROY Christine 208562
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
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>
>
> We have upgraded our SL6 server with this new packages (*).
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> And we have now rpc problem impacting nfs and nis at least (**).
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> Has anyone experienced this problem?
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> Any idea to solve this problem?
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>
>
> Thanks in advance,
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> Christine
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>
>
> (**)
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> May 24 09:41:33 gre-nis2 rpc.statd[32246]: Flags: TI-RPC May 24 09:41:33
> gre-nis2 rpc.statd[32246]: Failed to register (statd, 1, udp): svc_reg()
> err: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused May 24 09:41:33 gre-nis2
> rpc.statd[32246]: Failed to register (statd, 1, tcp): svc_reg() err: RPC:
> Remote system error - Connection refused May 24 09:41:33 gre-nis2
> rpc.statd[32246]: Failed to register (statd, 1, udp6): svc_reg() err: RPC:
> Remote system error - Connection refused May 24 09:41:33 gre-nis2
> rpc.statd[32246]: Failed to register (statd, 1, tcp6): svc_reg() err: RPC:
> Remote system error - Connection refused May 24 09:41:33 gre-nis2
> rpc.statd[32246]: failed to create RPC listeners, exiting
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>
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> (*)
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> yum[5544]: Updated: libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64
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> yum[5544]: Updated: rpcbind-0.2.0-13.el6_9.x86_64
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> rpcbind: rpcbind terminating on signal. Restart with "rpcbind -w"
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> rpc.statd[7613]: Version 1.2.3 starting
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> rpc.statd[7613]: Flags: TI-RPC
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> yum[7684]: Updated: kernel-firmware-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.noarch
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> Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64
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> Installed: kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64

It's been reported upstream for both RHEL 6 and 7:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1454876

Hopefully they come up with a fix soon.

Akemi