Sven Joachim wrote: >>> 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. > Interesting. I swear I've seen that message countless times before over the years and it never registered as a problem as everything seemed to work. I just assumed it had legitimately been called multiple times and this wasn't the first invocation. statd appears elsewhere so I assumed it wasn't a problem. Wrong again! >> 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. D'oh. I saw those but didn't read down far enough as the titles didn't register as being related to my problems. My bad. I'll keep tabs on those, cheers! - Jamie
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