Comment 62 for bug 525154

As written in #46 we have also this intolerable boot problem.
(Like others) my two colleagues and I have insisted on building our systems on Ubuntu Server instead of SUSE Professional which redounds upon us.
In the meantime I have worked on this problem for many weeks. So time was going to run out and I was going to lose my temper. This week (as a last try before switching to another distribution) I made again a new instalIation (after countless other tries). I used no separate /var-partition and tried to change the NFS-entries in the /etc/fstab to "noauto". In consequence of this I couldn't use “mount –a –t nfs” for mounting these directories. As a first primitive approach I mounted those in /etc/rc.local by calling each mount command directly after a sleep period. This solution worked, but was not useable in practice. So I made a script which is scanning the /etc/fstab for NFS-entries and is mounting / unmounting (here in reverse order) the directories. Before mounting after boot there is a 20 seconds sleep period to be sure all necessary initializations have be done. The script (placed in /etc/init.d) is invoked over links from /etc/rc?.d.
It works well. If this solution is compatible with a separate /var-partition I haven’t tested yet …