So, I now have a case where this race prevents a successful boot completely, 100% of the time. The only way I can get a normal boot is to manually mount an NFS filesystem in another window while mountall/upstart has stalled.
To clarify, the only way I can get this machine to boot is to boot the kernel with init=/bin/bash. Once I have the init/bash i open a vt with "open -c 12 /bin/bash". I then exec init with "exec /sbin/init" and normal boot continues until upstart/mountall gets stuck waiting for NFS filesystems to mount, which never do. This will wait here forever if I don't intervene. To get the boot to continue, I switch to the bash I started on vt 12 and just mount one of the several nfs filesystems mountall is waiting for with: # mount /autohome/brian for example. At this point upstart resumes starting services and regular boot completes. Happy to provide any information needed to progress this issue to resolution. -- mountall for /var races with rpc.statd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
