Oddly, this fixes the crash of rpcbind: cat /etc/sysconfig/rpcbind # # Optional arguments passed to rpcbind. See rpcbind(8) RPCBIND_ARGS="-h 0.0.0.0" so maybe nothing to do with ipv6 ________________________________ From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of LEROY Christine 208562 <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 24 May 2017 09:40:06 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: sl6 last rpcbind and libtirpc pb Hi all, We have upgraded our SL6 server with this new packages (*). And we have now rpc problem impacting nfs and nis at least (**). Has anyone experienced this problem? Any idea to solve this problem? Thanks in advance, Christine (**) 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 (*) yum[5544]: Updated: libtirpc-0.2.1-13.el6_9.x86_64 yum[5544]: Updated: rpcbind-0.2.0-13.el6_9.x86_64 rpcbind: rpcbind terminating on signal. Restart with "rpcbind -w" rpc.statd[7613]: Version 1.2.3 starting rpc.statd[7613]: Flags: TI-RPC yum[7684]: Updated: kernel-firmware-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.noarch Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64 Installed: kernel-devel-2.6.32-696.1.1.el6.x86_64