[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#434177: initscripts: mountnfs script doesn't wait for network to be effectively active

[Julien Valroff]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-38
Severity: normal

Hi,

When booting, the first nfs mount declared in my /etc/fstab is not mounted as the network connection
isn't yet effectively active.

I use a wireless connection with the madwifi driver with a WPA2 encryption (wpa_supplicant).

Setting a tempo like 'sleep 3' at the top of the /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs script does "fix"
the issue.

I guess there should be a proper way to determin if a network link is active before trying and mounting
the NFS shares.

Cheers,
Julien

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  2.22.1      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                    1.40.2-1    ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6                        2.6-2       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-23.1    Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.12r-19    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.86.ds1-38 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.5-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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