missing dependency on nfs-common

[JetPac]

Binary package hint: autofs

I have installed autofs:
apt-get install autofs

Then I have enabled auto.net in /etc/auto.master, restarted autofs and it did not work - I was only able to cd /net.

After a short while of debugging I have found that there is neither showmount nor kshowmount present on the system.

When I have manually added nfs-common and restarted autofs, everything works as expected.

Cheers,
JetPac

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

This bug is really old, please fix be

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

sorry I began writing nonsense, then saw the report date and decided it was really nonsense, then decided to subscribe to this bug and hit "save changes" with half of my nonsense still there.

[richard (richardjones)]

I've just hit this too in Feisty release 5.

[Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0)]

This also affects KDE, which will hang when nfs-common is NOT installed and the users' root dir is on an automounted NFS share (reported as bug #121247 against kdebase).

[Nathan Handler (nhandler)]

nfs-common has been added as a recommended package in autofs. Since recommended packages are now installed by default, this bug should be fixed.