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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
