[Solved] nfs won't mount on boot

quasar · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 31

My /etc/fstab contains the following line:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 7:29 pm Post subject:

quasar,

Add bg to your mount options, so if things are not ready yet, the mount attempts continue in the background.
Read man mount
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quasar · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 31

Adding bg to the options may have worked after a minute but I didn't want to wait a minute to find out. The real problem was that net.eth0 was not in any runlevel. Adding it to default fixed the problem. It is unclear to me how I was getting any networking without net.eth0 in a runlevel but it works now.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 10:40 am Post subject:

quasar,

I expect the nfs startup script needs/depends on net, so when nfs tries to start, it starts eth0 but by the time eth0 is up, nfs has given up waiting.
eth0 contines to come up and its waiting for you when you do the mount manually.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.