NFS mount does not mount on boot

[Dave Quinlan]

An NFS mount that is specified in /etc/fstab does not mount on boot.

After boot:

dave@mazirian:~$ grep : /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
cerberos:/home/group /home/cerberos nfs ro,soft,intr,rsize=8192 0 0

dave@mazirian:~$ grep : /proc/mounts

dave@mazirian:~$ ls -l /home/cerberos
total 0

dave@mazirian:~$ sudo mount -a

dave@mazirian:~$ grep : /proc/mounts
cerberos:/home/group /home/cerberos nfs ro,v3,rsize=8192,wsize=32768,soft,intr,lock,proto=tcp,addr=cerberos 0 0

dave@mazirian:~$ ls -l /home/cerberos
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 dave dave 31 2006-05-15 23:45 games
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-05-13 23:26 -iname
drwxr-xr-x 268 dave root 8192 2006-06-06 20:18 music
drwxr-xr-x 34 dave root 4096 2006-06-07 01:42 video

During ten consecutive restarts, this problem manifested itself after each and every boot.

This does not appear to be a duplicate of Bug #46516 in sysvinit because there are no NFSv4 mounts and only one NFSv3 mount involved here.

Nor does it appear to be a duplicate of Bug #44836 in coreutils because no files are accessible within the mount before the "sudo mount -a" command is issued.

[Carsten Raskgaard (carsten-raskgaard)]

I can confirm that this is also a problem with nfsv2 mounts.

In 1 out of approx. 20-50 reboots I actually do get the nfs mounts from /etc/fstab mounted. When I eventually get a successful mount, nfs-locking is not always working.

Also, everything (including nfs-locking) worked fine before upgrading to 6.06.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

It is unlikely that bug #46516 is specific to the NFS version, and likely that this bug is a duplicate of that one.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. It is a duplicate of another bug in
the system. Please feel free to add any useful input to that bug.