In addition, it means NFSv2 cannot be enabled, since the latest rpc.nfsd seems to have NFSv2 disabled, and there is no way to pass "-V 2" to rpc.nfsd Please accept the patch. This should probably be merged with 738063 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738063 No, this is not fixed upstream, since the problem is in the debian init scripts