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nfs-user-server package

  1. Bug #189593
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 189593

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Peter Cordes (peter-cordes) wrote :

I tried mount from an initramfs, while trying to boot the livecd with nfsroot. Regular mount works on Hardy, but the kernel prints warnings that it's providing a workaround for not having a lockd running. This support is no longer present in Intrepid's 2.6.27.

In Hardy, see linux-2.6.24/fs/nfs/client.c:nfs_start_lockd(): There's a workaround for failing to start lockd, and a big comment about it.
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printk(KERN_ERR "nfs: Starting lockd failed (do you have nfs-common installed?).
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 Maybe this is ok if you use the right NFS mount options, like no locking, or something. I was just trying to run mount manually with no mount options.