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nfs-utils package

  1. Bug #525154
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 525154

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Cody Herriges (ody-cat) wrote : Re: [Bug 525154] Re: mountall for /var races with rpc.statd

On May 4, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Nathan Grennan wrote:

> I am the sysadmin for a company that uses Ubuntu for desktops, and uses
> nfs heavily. I upgraded to Lucid from Karmic, and everything has been
> fine. A co-worker upgraded, and ran into this bug. He tried the mounted
> MOUNTPOINT=/var workaround. It actually seemed to make the problem
> worse. The first time he booted it just hung the boot process. With a
> reboot, it came up without the hang.
>
> What upstart needs is more of a "can I write to this directory" option.
>

I saw a similar freeze when I was hacking about and tried `mounted MOUNTPOINT=/var/run` which is used by /etc/init/mounted-varrun.conf. This new tight integration with upstart is going to take some getting use too.