Comment 10 for bug 71212

If it helps, when I was playing around with this, I found that switching to nfs-user-server on the server side stopped gnome from locking up. To do this you need to make sure exportfs does not contain any options that nfs-user-server does not support, then run 'aptitude install nfs-user-server ' and reboot. This is not a fix just a workaround, that solved the problem for me. All this makes me want to switch to samba/cifs.... if only I could get it to automount on client logon...