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nfs-utils package

  1. Bug #525154
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 525154

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: mountall for /var races with rpc.statd

statd is "start on (started portmap or mount TYPE=nfs)"
portmap is "start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=lo)"

and the statd job tries to start portmap if it's not already running.

So the only possible race conditions I see here are if
 - mount TYPE=nfs is emitted before all the local filesystems are mounted
 - mount TYPE=nfs is emitted before lo is configured, and this causes portmap to fail
 - /var is on a network filesystem *other* than NFS (if it's on NFS, then this can't really be solved, you just get a deadlock if you try)

Can you post your fstab, so I can better understand which of these cases applies? (I'm not sure it's fixable anyway with current upstart, but at least we'll know what we're dealing with)