The creation of a Kerberos Context and its initialization with default values obtained from the Kerberos configuration file during the server startup could not be completed.

If only AUTH_SYS authentication is specified as a site attribute (sys) then this message is issued to the NFS server log only (and not to the console). If AUTH_SYS authentication (sys) and any kerberos flavors (KRB5 or KRB5I or KRB5P) are specified as site attributes then this message is issued to the console as well as the NFS server log.

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The value of the Kerberos error code after the call to the API krb5_init_context().