Confirmed. The issue here is that as an NFS mount not mounted under
/usr or /var, mountall implicitly treats this as 'nobootwait'. It's
debatable whether this should be done, but the other issue is that
filesystems being marked 'nobootwait' doesn't just prevent them from
blocking the boot, it also prevents them from being waited for at all -
if they become available while mountall is running it will mount them,
but otherwise mountall will exit without caring that there are still
filesystems that could possibly come online later and need mounted.
This is definitely a bug in mountall.
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1384502
Title:
fstab entry for nfs /home fails to mount on boot
Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
i'm uncertain exactly when this issue started as we use cfengine
(verifies all expected mounts in place, manually mounts those that are
not). from a note i have i believe it goes back as far as lucid.
the symptom is that an /etc/fstab entry for an nfs-mounted /home is
not mounted during the system boot. once the system is network-
accessible, manually running `mount -tnfs -av` as root (or using
cfengine or any number of other solutions) is sufficient.
per lp#836533 i added "--verbose" to /etc/init/mountall.conf and will attach
the resulting /var/log/upstart/mountall.log and /etc/network/interfaces. the
smoking gun appears to be:
mount.nfs: Failed to resolve server nfs-home: Temporary failure in name
resolution
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: mountall 2.53
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-38.65.lp1383921-generic 3.13.11.8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-38.65-generic x86_64
.run.mount.utab:
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 22 16:35:47 2014
ProcEnviron:
TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcKernelCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-38.65-generic
root=/dev/md0 ro consoleblank=0 console=tty0 console=ttyS2,115200n8 nomdmonddf
nomdmonisw bootdegraded=true
SourcePackage: mountall
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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