Bug#419195: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#419195: initscripts: if-up.d/mountnfs should only run after all interfaces have been brought up at boot; hangs boot

[Julien BLACHE]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:

Hi,

> I agree that it is not optimal at the moment, but mounting NFS
> directories after ifup solve other problems without known workarounds.

The problem is that it's not run *after* ifup, it's run after an
interface has been brought up, which is quite different when you're
calling ifup -a as the initscript does.

Maybe ifupdown should be fixed to run the if-up.d scripts only after
it's brought up all the interfaces.

>> The line in fstab looks like:
>> 10.0.1.3:/export/foobar /mnt/foobar nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0
>
> You can also avoid the problem by adding 'bg' to the option list,
> ending up with an entry like this:
>
>    10.0.1.3:/export/foobar /mnt/foobar nfs rw,hard,intr,bg 0 0

I'll try that next time I'll reboot this machine, but I really do not
like that situation at all.

Moreover, there's exactly 0 lines about this in initscripts'
README.Debian, and this appears to be a somewhat known problem...

JB.

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