Created attachment 871199 [details]
dracut patch

While testing the dracut nfs module in Tumbleweed, I found this warning in the
journal:

>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost systemd[1]: Starting dracut pre-udev hook...
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost kernel: RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport m>
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost kernel: RPC: Registered udp transport module.
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost kernel: RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost kernel: RPC: Registered tcp-with-tls transport module.
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost kernel: RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel trans>
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost rpc.statd[363]: Version 2.6.3 starting
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost rpc.statd[363]: Initializing NSM state
> ---> Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost rpc.statd[363]: Running as root.  chown /var/lib/nfs to choose different user
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost rpc.idmapd[477]: Setting log level to 0
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost rpc.idmapd[477]: libnfsidmap: requested translation method, 'nsswitch', is not available
>      Dec 07 14:07:30 localhost systemd[1]: Finished dracut pre-udev hook.

I never saw this in SLE, but then I noticed that nfs-utils adds the statd user
via sysusers.d configuration since version 2.5.1:

> $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/sysusers.d/statd-user.conf
> nfs-client-2.6.3-41.1.x86_64
> $ cat /usr/lib/sysusers.d/statd-user.conf
> # Type Name ID GECOS [HOME] Shell
> u statd - "NFS statd daemon" /var/lib/nfs -

Also, the nfs-utils.spec file defines:

> # lib/nfs must be root-owned.
> # sm and sm.back and contents should be statd:statd,
> # but only chown if the dirs are currently root-owned.
> # This is needed for some upgraded, but chown is best avoided
> # when not necessary
> ...
> %{_sysusersdir}/statd-user.conf
> %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/nfs
> %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
> %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/nfs/v4recovery
> %attr(0700,statd,statd) %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/nfs/sm
> %attr(0700,statd,statd) %dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/nfs/sm.bak
> %ghost %{_localstatedir}/lib/nfs/state

Neil, I can't find this in nfs-utils upstream, is this SUSE-specific? how bad
is this warning? should we add a custom patch (maybe similar to the one
attached) to the dracut nfs module to avoid it?