[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#482817: Bug#482817: initscripts: No longer mounts NFS filesystems at startup

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Raphael Manfredi]
> I don't use /etc/network/interfaces on this machine.  It uses the
> old /etc/init.d/network hardwired configuration which says:

Wow.  I have never seen such setup, and it will not work with the
current way NFS mounting is handled.  Because of the new behaviuor of
the linux kernel, where boot events are more asynchronous, and thus
very hard to predict, it is required to have a way to delay NFS
mounting until network interfaces are available.

> Before you object, let me tell you that I have other machines which
> use /etc/network/interfaces and where the same problem occurs
> (i.e. no NFS mounts)!

Do they have equally interesting configuration?  The NFS mounting is
done by ifupdown when the last of the interfaces listed in
/etc/network/interfaces is up.  If you want the old synchronous
behavour, use ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no in /etc/default/rcS.

> It was configured exactly the same way.  When I installed
> initscripts, many new /etc/init.d/* files were installed and the
> logic of mounts was obviously changed.  I did not change any of my
> networking setup or my /etc/fstab..

How did you manage to install a Debian machine without the initscripts
package?  It is as far as I know, installed by default since before
Potato.  I have never seen a default Debian installation without this
package, and thus I wonder how you ended up without it.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen