Jan Christoph Nordholz wrote:
> Hi Luk,

Hi

>>>> It seems that autofs is started before nfs-common which apparently
>>>> prevents automounting of nfs partitions. Changing the symlink from
>>>> S19autofs to S21autofs to make sure it gets started after S20nfs-common
>>>> seems to fix the problem.
>>> shuffling the autofs link around would open Pandora's box again - see
>>> #400952. We're talking about a similar corner case here, as nfs-common
>>> is also in rcS.d/44... so the admin must have switched to single-user and
>>> back to get hit by the bug (or /usr/sbin was not available at rcS.d/44).
> 
>> Not true as rcS.d/44 < 19 < 20
> 
> Excuse me? That's the point I was trying to make... unless something has
> prevented nfs-common from firing up its daemons that early, nfs-common
> should have been started before autofs during normal bootup, obscuring the 
> bug:
> 
> ] /etc/rcS.d/S44nfs-common
> ] /etc/rc2.d/S19autofs
> ] /etc/rc2.d/S20nfs-common
> 
> leaving only two scenarios:
> 
> a) rcS.d/S44nfs-common didn't start anything (e.g. no /usr yet)
> b) a runlevel chain S->[2345]->1-*>[2345] (bug surfaces at the last 
> transition)
> 
> the latter being in complete analogy to portmap (rcS.d/S43, rc[2345].d/S17) in
> #400952.

It appears to be a). Any hints on how to figure out why nfs-common is
not starting anything?

Cheers

Luk



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