Comment 22 for bug 1118447

A cleaner way of mounting the nfs shares than Josep provided is something like what I have below. It looks for whether the nfs server responds to a ping rather than the default route and will retry 3 times with a 3 second timeout each time. It also checks all nfs mount points listed in /etc/fstab which largely restores the functionality of that file.

In any case this is a work around and it seems that fixing the original bug would be preferable to continued effort in this direction.

cat /etc/fstab | sed 's/#.*//' | grep nfs | while read LINE
do
        HOST=`echo "$LINE" | cut -f1 -d:`
        DIR=`echo "$LINE" | awk '{print $2}'`
        if ! mount -l -t nfs | awk '{print $3}' | grep -q "^$DIR$"
        then
                echo -n "Mounting '$DIR'"
                COUNT=0
                STOP=0
                while [ $STOP -eq 0 -a $COUNT -lt 3 ]
                do
                        if ping -qAc 3 $HOST > /dev/null
                        then
                                mount $DIR
                                STOP=1
                                echo " done."
                        else
                                # no sleep needed here because ping will take 3 seconds to fail anyway
                                COUNT=$( expr $COUNT + 1 )
                                echo -n "."
                        fi
                done
                if [ $STOP -eq 0 ]
                then
                        echo " failed. $HOST not responding."
                fi
        else
                echo "$DIR already mounted"
        fi
done