Comment 4 for bug 447654

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: NFSv4 automounting completely broken?

The uploaded fix solves the problem of mountall not emitting the 'local-filesystems' and 'filesystem' signals until all NFS shares are mounted.

However, it does not fix the problem that nfs4 shares will not automount.

This is a regression vs. mountall 0.1.8, and appears to be a problem with mountall failing to gracefully handle errors from the mount attempts the first time around, and then never retrying even when signalled (-USR1).

My best guess as to the cause of the failure on the first mount attempt is that it happens early enough that starting idmap or gssd fails (possibly because mounting of rpc_pipefs fails?); I haven't been able to catch it happening on the console. Whatever the cause, though, it often leaves behind zombie 'mount' processes.