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nfs-utils package

  1. Bug #525154
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 525154

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote : Re: mountall for /var races with rpc.statd

So, I now have a case where this race prevents a successful boot completely, 100% of the time. The only way I can get a normal boot is to manually mount an NFS filesystem in another window while mountall/upstart has stalled.

To clarify, the only way I can get this machine to boot is to boot the kernel with init=/bin/bash.

Once I have the init/bash i open a vt with "open -c 12 /bin/bash". I then exec init with "exec /sbin/init" and normal boot continues until upstart/mountall gets stuck waiting for NFS filesystems to mount, which never do. This will wait here forever if I don't intervene.

To get the boot to continue, I switch to the bash I started on vt 12 and just mount one of the several nfs filesystems mountall is waiting for with:

# mount /autohome/brian

for example. At this point upstart resumes starting services and regular boot completes.

Happy to provide any information needed to progress this issue to resolution.