Package: portmap Version: 6.0-11 Severity: serious The change in portmap 6.0-11 to bind only to loopback by default causes regressions for Debian's out-of-the-box support for NFS mounting. Specifically, the following things that previously worked with Debian with no additional configuration now require tuning the portmap package before they will work:
- statd notification of server reboots for NFS lock breaking (aside: I can't actually find any evidence that statd works automatically for NFSv3 mounts on my systems, /var/lib/nfs/sm is always empty on both client and server) - use of sec=krb5* (rpc.gssd) with NFSv3 mounts - *all* NFSv3 server support This means that *every single use case* for which portmap is installed by default on Debian systems is now broken out of the box because portmap has been changed to only listen on localhost. That's not reasonable, and a better solution should be found before release. Better solutions would include: - Revert the -i default; drop nfs-common's dependency on portmap to a Suggests: and ensure that /etc/init.d/nfs-common fails gracefully if only statd is wanted and portmap is absent. Assumes that it's ok to have statd missing when using NFSv3 - I guess it doesn't work right now, but I'm not sure how critical that bug is. Servers will work right because nfs-kernel-server package will depend on portmap directly. - Revert the -i default; support a tristate value in /etc/default/portmap for ENABLED=(no|yes|ifnfswanted), defaulting to 'ifnfswanted', that checks for both client and server NFS configuration on the host in /etc/init.d/portmap and only starts if present. This will result in portmap only being started once nfs-kernel-server is installed or an NFS mount is configured in /etc/fstab; requires some annoying maintainer script integration in nfs-kernel-server to ensure portmap's init script is rerun once nfs-kernel-server is unpacked on the system. There are probably other solutions that are also better than a pointless loopback-only portmapper, though I can't think of them at the moment. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages portmap depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-18 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip portmap recommends no packages. portmap suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * portmap/loopback: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
