On 07/12/2012 07:12 AM, Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 08:31 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> Hi Muharem,
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:30:31PM -0000, Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote:
>>> $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall nfs-common
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree       
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
>>> required:
>>>   xfonts-encodings linux-headers-3.0.0-22 libapt-inst1.3 xfonts-utils
>>>   libxfont1 libept1 libvtk5.6 libvpx0 linux-headers-3.0.0-22-server
>>>   libapt-pkg4.11 x-ttcidfont-conf libfontenc1 libjpeg62 libnl3 defoma
>>>   libllvm2.9
>>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not 
>>> upgraded.
>>> 2 not fully installed or removed.
>>> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
>>> Setting up nfs-common (1:1.2.5-3ubuntu3) ...
>>> rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs'
>>> dpkg: error processing nfs-common (--configure):
>>>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nfs-kernel-server:
>>>  nfs-kernel-server depends on nfs-common (= 1:1.2.5-3ubuntu3); however:
>>>   Package nfs-common is not configured yet.
>>> dpkg: error processing nfs-kernel-server (--configure):
>>>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>> No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a 
>>> follow-up error from a previous failure.
>>>                             Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  nfs-common
>>>  nfs-kernel-server
>>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> The latest version of nfs-common in precise does:
>>
>>    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
>>
>> So the question is, why is rmdir failing?  Is this directory a mount point? 
>> If so, why was stopping idmapd and gssd not sufficient to trigger
>> unmounting?
> Hello Steve,
> 
> that directory was not a mount point. Unfortunately I did not have the
> time to look at its content. I did a
> 
>     apt-get remove --purge nfs-common
> 
> followed by
> 
>     apt-get install nfs-common nfs-kernel-server
> 
> and that fixed the issue.
Hmm .. I had another look at the machine:

    $ mount
    ...
    rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
    rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

It appears /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs was a mount point indeed.

Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen

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