On Thu, 17 May 2012 10:52:15 -0500 (CDT) Matthew J. Roth wrote:

Do you mind sharing that script? It's a great idea for solving a common problem.

This will probably get mangled due to a few long lines, but I'll give it a shot.

In the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script I have this line:

/usr/local/bin/bg-mount-nfs

That /usr/local/bin/bg-mount-nfs script looks like:

#!/bin/bash # # Background mounts for each of the nfs filesystems appearing in # /etc/fstab not marked as noauto # PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin" export PATH sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/[ \t][ \t]*/\t/g' /etc/fstab | grep -w nfs | grep -w -v noauto | cut -f2 | while read mountpoint do nohup /usr/local/bin/mount-filesystem "$mountpoint" > /dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null & done

And the /usr/local/bin/mount-filesystem script it backgrounds for each filesystem looks like:

#!/bin/bash # # Argument is a mountpoint, keep trying to mount the thing till # it appears in /proc/mounts. # PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin" export PATH if [ -z "$1" ] then echo Hey! Missing mountpoint argument! 1>&2 exit 2 fi check=`sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/[ \t][ \t]*/\t/g' /etc/fstab | cut -f2 | fgrep -x "$1"` if [ "$check" = "$1" ] then : else echo "$1" does not appear as a mountpoint in /etc/fstab! 1>&2 exit 2 fi while true do check=`sed 's/[ \t][ \t]*/\t/g' /proc/mounts | cut -f2 | fgrep -x "$1"` if [ "$check" = "$1" ] then exit 0 fi if mount "$1" -o fg then : else sleep 10 fi done

On 05/17/2012 09:54 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:

Jonathan Allen wrote:

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Hi All,

On a fully up-to-date F16 system (as of this morning) I have an issue with remote mounting directories at boot. The machine's /etc/fstab contains these two lines:

purse:/share /share nfs rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=192.168.1.10 0 0 mirror:/home /home nfs nfsvers=3,rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=192.168.1.1 0 0

The first, to an F6 machine, always works. The second, to an F14 machine never works at boot time, but always works with 'mount -a' done later in a root (text) login session or 'su' time.

How can I get this to work without manual intervention?

I would not be surprised if F14 is nfs4, and I've seen similar issues, older servers using nfs3 work better. it could be related to nfs-idmapd getting going, can't say for sure.

I don't think Networkmanager-wait-online will help, as the mounts to old releases need a network, too, and they work.

And you didn't ask, but I'll mention that putting IP addresses in fstab is an opportunity for simple changes to break things. I have seen people learn this the hard way, although I didn't.

Are you sure that the local /home disk partition is mounted BEFORE the NFS mount occurs? It could be that the NFS mount occurs at /home first, then the local /home mount occurs, overlays the NFS mount and hides it. Ditto with the /share mountpoint.

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