[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#397430: incorrect starting order

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 03:05:15PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Wouter Verhelst]
> > By default, the nfs-common initscript is installed at
> > /etc/rc2.d/S21nfs-common. However, mountnfs.sh is started at
> > rcS.d/S45mountnfs.sh; as a result, the nfs common utilities aren't
> > installed at that point (yet), so mounting NFS shares at boot time
> > won't work properly (at least not if you need GSSAPI authentication,
> > which I do).
> 
> I believe this analysis is wrong.  NFS mounting is done by
> /etc/network/ifup.d/mountnfs when an network interface is available,
> and it will start portman and nfs-common if it decide it is required.
> The relative starting order in in rcS.d/ do not matter much, as the
> mounting can happen at any time after udev is started.
> 
> What exactly is the problem with GSSAPI auth and mounting?

Eh, I don't recall. I thought it was as I described, but I don't know
for sure anymore. I currently also don't have the necessary
infrastructure anymore to test, and I don't know when that will change.

There was a problem, that's for sure.

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