Comment 7 for bug 643289

Hi guys!

First thanks for your analysis

I'm in the process to let deploy more than 400 computers using the current LTS with NFSv4 (and autofs here too) and I'm stuck at randomly facing exactly the same problem of idmapd failing to start, here because of the late rpc_pipefs start:

 Feb 28 22:20:42 test kernel: [ 6.305583] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 <email address hidden>).
 Feb 28 22:20:43 test rpc.statd[888]: Version 1.1.6 Starting
 Feb 28 22:20:43 test rpc.statd[888]: Flags:
 Feb 28 22:20:43 test rpc.idmapd[901]: main: open(/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs): No such file or directory
 Feb 28 22:20:43 test init: idmapd main process (901) terminated with status 1
 Feb 28 22:20:43 test init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
 ... (more of them)
 Feb 28 22:20:43 test init: idmapd main process (954) terminated with status 1
 Feb 28 22:20:43 test init: idmapd respawning too fast, stopped

So what's next? Is there any package ready for testing yet?

Cheers, J.C.