[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386959: same problem on diskless nodes

[stephen mulcahy]

Sorry, I see this is address in bug 388761 .. I'll follow up there if I
have anything useful to add.

-stephen

> Hi,
>
> I have the same problem reported previously - the nfs mount script times
> out without anything ever getting mounted.
>
> If I run
>
> /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs
>
> manually after the node has booted it works fine.
>
> The nodes in question are diskless nodes which use netboot to start up so
> I'm wondering if the check for a working network interface which you
> mentioned might be failing on me.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs logging its
> output somewhere, a quick look didn't show me what script this is getting
> started in. I guess my situation is pretty unusual so feel free to
> disregard this comment, for now I've added a quick hack to
> /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh which calls /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs directly
> and this seems to do the trick (although I'd prefer to not have to
> maintain such a hack going forward).
>
> Can you point me at where the check for a working interface is performed
> and I'll try to see if thats whats failing here (again, I didn't see it
> from a quick look around .. perhaps the solution here is for me to take a
> longer look around the startup scripts)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -stephen
>