[ILUG] Dapper won't mount NFS drives at boot

[Cian Davis]

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Are the mounts specified in /etc/fstab as IP addresses or DNS names?

It's a problem I've been having with a sarge box and still haven't
sorted, despite the fact that named is set to come up before NFS.

Cian

Niall O Broin wrote:
> I have the NFS problem on several dapper NFS clients - they will not
> mount NFS drives at startup. The NFS client packages are correctly
> installed, and the fstab is correctly configured, because once the
> box is up, I can type
>
> mount /any_nfs_volume
>
> and off I go.
>
> It appears that the script  /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs  which
> SHOULD be doing this is simply not being called at startup. ls -lu
> doesn't show it as having been read and while I have this at the
> start of the script
>
> touch /tmp/mount.nfs.start
> exec > /tmp/mount.nfs.log 2>&1
>
> after a reboot neither of these files exist (and I have /tmp file
> retention set to 30 days).
>
>
> The above is what's happening on the box I'm currently trying to
> debug. On other boxes I've had other odd symptoms, such as the
> volumes being mounted, but no entries being created in /etc/mtab
> (and hence not showing in df either, but showing in /proc/mounts)
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Googling and
> looking in ubuntuforums only seems to produce people having similar
> problems :-( so I'm hoping that the collective wisdom of ILUG can do
> a little better.
>
>
> Niall
>
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