/etc/init/statd.conf: race with mountall if /var is separate partition
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| nfs-utils (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: nfs-common
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Package: nfs-common
Version: 1:1.2.0-4ubuntu4
Despite having the fix to #484209, I witnessed a box that still had problems starting statd at boot:
init: statd pre-start process (xxx) terminated with status 1
etc.
Turning on console output, I saw that statd was reporting a chdir error:
statd: Could not chdir: No such file or directory
Doing some Googling and guesswork, I eventually determined that it was failing to access /var/lib/nfs. On this particular box, /var is a separate partition from root, and I could see from boot.log that statd was being started before /var was finished mounting. I believe this race is simply fixed by the following dependency in /etc/init/
start on ((started portmap or mounting TYPE=nfs)
and local-filesystems)
| Joshua Baergen (joshuabaergen) wrote | #1 |
Doing a bit more work with my home PXE setup, it may have been /var/run that was needed instead of /var/lib/nfs, but it's all the same problem in the end.