[Bug 501678] Re: karmic indefinitely waits for nfs4-mount

2010-01-16 Thread Ulf Dambacher
Update for whoever gets here: I triet with bobootwait but it failed like I anticipated it. After some digging and source-reading I found out the following: mountall tries to mount the network volume and if it does not work, it will wait for the device by waiting for a SIGUSR. upstart sends

[Bug 501678] Re: karmic indefinitely waits for nfs4-mount

2010-01-04 Thread Ulf Dambacher
Hi Mr. Remnant Setting fstab to nobootwait is not a solution. /home has to be there before any user gets a login If there is no home directory for the user and gdm and login will fail. And my users complain heavily and start to press the reset button or c-a-del every time they get waiting for

[Bug 501678] [NEW] karmic indefinitely waits for nfs4-mount

2009-12-30 Thread Ulf Dambacher
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: mountall I mount my /home directory from an nfs4 server by using an entry in fstab: svr.x.de:/ /home nfs4rw,sec=krb5 0 0 at reboot i get follogwing error mount.nfs4: no such device mountall: mount /home [...] terminated with