Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-15 Thread Michael Biebl
On 10.12.2012 00:09, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 02:43:36PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Ross Boylan wrote: >>> Bob Proulx wrote: This nfs startup part is a part that seems to have suffered from the transition from boot time scripts to event driven scripts. This kind

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 dec 12, 22:23:21, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Some things which need addressing: > > - use of tmpfses for non-writable locations like /media: we should > > be doing this by default; introducing /run/media on the /run > > tmpfs was one thing looked at for wheezy; but it didn't get done >

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Roger Leigh wrote: > This is an area which could use quite a bit of work. Unfortunately, > as you point out there isn't a single place to fix things--it > touches a whole host of packages, from the initramfs to the > initscripts, to udev and networking. It does touch many things. The configurati

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 02:43:36PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > This nfs startup part is a part that seems to have suffered from the > > > transition from boot time scripts to event driven scripts. This kind > > > of thing use to work in the previous in

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
Wolfgang Karall wrote: > On 12/11/2012 11:08 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before >>> assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will >>> avoid assigning that address to another client. >> >> I

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-11 Thread Wolfgang Karall
On 12/11/2012 11:08 AM, Chris Davies wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before >> assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will >> avoid assigning that address to another client. > > ICMP ping? Are you sure? I suppo

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before > assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will > avoid assigning that address to another client. ICMP ping? Are you sure? According to the documents I've read (RFC2131 amongst others

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > This nfs startup part is a part that seems to have suffered from the > > transition from boot time scripts to event driven scripts. This kind > > of thing use to work in the previous init script way. I don't know > > the best design to make this work in

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 14:11 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_basic_network_configuration_with_ifupdown_legacy > > P.P.S. Unanswered Question: Since the PXE boot used dhcp to obtain an > address that means there is a limited lease t

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a theory that the mounts are supposed to happen when the network > > device comes up; the regular network up routines are not triggered to > > avoid screwing up the root fs. /etc/network/interfaces has > > > > # The primary network interface > > #

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-09 Thread Ross Boylan
The solution is to run mount -a -t nfs in /etc/rc.local. Depending on your aesthetics, this might be considered a work-around. More details below. On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 01:19 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a theory that the mounts are supposed to happen when the network

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > I don't think using dhcp is correct because the network is already up > and assigned. But perhaps it is because that would allow the system > to migrate to a different address after the lease expires. I don't > know. I didn't do any testing of that configuration. (Maybe late

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a theory that the mounts are supposed to happen when the network > device comes up; the regular network up routines are not triggered to > avoid screwing up the root fs. /etc/network/interfaces has > > # The primary network interface > # do not bring up interface twice

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a diskless workstation running testing, and although > its /etc/fstab is > /dev/nfs / nfs defaults 0 0 > none /tmptmpfs defaults 0 0 > none /var/runtmpfs defaults 0 0 > none /var/lock tmpfs defau

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 02:09:47PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a diskless workstation running testing, and although > its /etc/fstab is > /dev/nfs / nfs defaults 0 0 > none /tmptmpfs defaults 0 0 > none /var/runtmpfs defaults 0 0 >

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Biebl
On 08.12.2012 23:09, Ross Boylan wrote: > 192.168.40.2:/usr/local/mnt/usr/local nfs defaults 0 0 > 192.168.40.2:/usr/local/var/media /usr/local/var/media nfs defaults 0 0 > > The root fs is mounted correctly (during the boot sequence, before it > gets to fstab), but the other 2 NFS