[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#527973: initscripts needs a newish ifupdown else mountnfs fails

[Phil Endecott]

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


I installed some other package that required a new initscripts.  Afterwards my NFS
filesystems stopped getting mounted at boot.

It turns out that /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs looks in /etc/network/run/ifstate, and
if the interface is not up yet [I have only lo and eth0] it stops.  With my old version
of ifupdown (0.6.7 I think) it seems that eth0=eth0 was not being appended to ifstate
until after montnfs had checked for it.  [Verified with strace -f].  Having upgraded to
the current version of ifupdown (0.6.8+nmu1) the problem has gone away.

The ifupdown changelog for version 0.6.8 mentions something about rewriting the way that
the state file is handled, and I guess that this is the key difference.

I suggest that initscripts should depend on ifupdown >= version 0.6.8.


Regards,  Phil.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc3
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils   2.15.3                     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs     1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6         2.9-8                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base      3.2-22                     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount         2.13.1.1-1                 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-util 2.86.ds1-61                System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        21.5-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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