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Re: NFS Not mounting at boot



On 2008-11-25 21:45 +0100, Jamie Thompson wrote:

> Hi all, I did my upgrades as normal a couple of days ago, and now NFS doesn't
> seem to automount my /home any more, where previously it was all working fine.
>
> Here's what I installed at the time:
> [...]
> ...of which only portmap strikes me as point of interaction with NFS.

Correct.

> Here's my boot log:
> [...]
>> Tue Nov 25 18:49:47 2008: Starting portmap daemon...Already running..

This is the problem, portmap is not actually running, causing rpc.statd...

>> Tue Nov 25 18:49:47 2008: Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed!
>> Tue Nov 25 18:50:09 2008: mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
>> Tue Nov 25 18:50:09 2008:    Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.

...to fail.

> I've been through the init scripts looking for the actual call to mount (so I
> could work upwards and find out what is wrong)...but I can't find it.
>
> Manual mounting once it's running works fine, so as a temporary hack I've just
> put mount -a in my rc.local, but I'd like to find the real problem(s?).

They are in the portmap init script:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506429
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448470

You may want to watch (e.g. subscribe to) these bugs.

Sven


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