[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#506995: initscripts: nfs not mounted at boot due to portmap startup failure

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
Severity: important

When bringing up the network interfaces, the init script attempt to mount nfs
remotes fails, because statd previously failed to load. This is in turn due to
portmap failing to load.

The portmap script, as called during the attempt to start the needed services
for nfs, claims (falsely) that portmap is 'Already running'. Debugging shows
that this is caused by two instances of the portmap init script being run
concurrently: the portmap pid detection thus fails because each instance sees
the pid of the other instance and belives this to be the actual portmap running.

I have not been able to determine the reason for the concurrent double portmap
init script execution, since I haven't altered nor added any init script, nor
the ifup-down scripts.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  2.30        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                    1.41.3-1    ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  libc6                        2.7-16      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-20      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.13.1.1-1  Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.86.ds1-61 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.6-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

initscripts suggests no packages.

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