Sorry, I see this is address in bug 388761 .. I'll follow up there if I have anything useful to add.
-stephen > Hi, > > I have the same problem reported previously - the nfs mount script times > out without anything ever getting mounted. > > If I run > > /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs > > manually after the node has booted it works fine. > > The nodes in question are diskless nodes which use netboot to start up so > I'm wondering if the check for a working network interface which you > mentioned might be failing on me. > > Any suggestions on how to get /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs logging its > output somewhere, a quick look didn't show me what script this is getting > started in. I guess my situation is pretty unusual so feel free to > disregard this comment, for now I've added a quick hack to > /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh which calls /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs directly > and this seems to do the trick (although I'd prefer to not have to > maintain such a hack going forward). > > Can you point me at where the check for a working interface is performed > and I'll try to see if thats whats failing here (again, I didn't see it > from a quick look around .. perhaps the solution here is for me to take a > longer look around the startup scripts)? > > Thanks, > > -stephen >