On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 00:32:34 +0100, [email protected] wrote:

> > #mount.nfs a6://usr/portage /usr/portage -o nfsvers=3  hangs
> > indefinitely until I hit Ctrl-C.  If I then repeat the same command
> > immediately the mount succeeds.  This is the mysterious nfs black
> > magic I've run into many times over the years and makes me dread nfs
> > updates.  
> 
> Here is the postinstall info from the update to nfs-utils-1.3.1-r1.
> Maybe you run into that. 
> 
> "If you use OpenRC, the nfsmount service has been replaced with
> nfsclient. If you were using nfsmount, please add nfsclient and
> netmount to the same runlevel as nfsmount."

It's got nothing to do with the init system used. That message tells you
what to do to try to mount the NFS shares when you boot, but unless you
have suitable mount options or kernel config, that attempt will fail.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Why is the word abbreviation so long?

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