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nfs-utils package

  1. Bug #643289
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 643289

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Jean Christophe André (progfou) wrote :

Thanks Alexander!

I've investigated your patches and find them very interesting, clearly based on the same model of portmap/portmap-wait.

Still, I was looking for the less intrusive possible modification in the time being (while this bug is being investigated thoughtfully, I hope, by Canonical and/or the community) so I just added this line at the end of idmapd's pre-start script:

  if ! mountpoint -q /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs ; then do_modprobe sunrpc ; mount -t rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs || true ; fi

I know this is not the correct way to do it, but it's enough in my case to ensure idmapd will always start/restart/stop correctly, without needing to touch any other file than /etc/init/idmapd.conf.

I think your way is a really good one and I hope it will soon be officially integrated through a standard LTS update.

Cheers, J.C.