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nfs-utils package

  1. Bug #567591
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 567591

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Aurélien Begel (pcrider-gmail) wrote :

I think the bug may be related to a recent change in portmap: indeed until recently portmap did start on "local-filesystems", so /usr (and /var, etc.) was mounted before portmap starts, and statd starts after portmap, so statd could start properly.

portmap (6.0.0-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * portmap should start on virtual-filesystems, not local-filesystems, since
    it only ever writes to /var/run; this should break the circular dependency
    between portmap and mountall when the root filesystem is on NFS.
    LP: #537133
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:43:55 +0000

In my bug description I said this was linked to /usr mounted on a separate volume, but this could also happen when /var is mounted on a separate volume, see LP #525154.