I had the exact same problem. I couldn't workout out what was wrong because I didn't have the time to do so.
In my /var/log/daemon.log file I got the following messages when trying to start the nfs-common init script: Mar 28 22:17:14 gecko rpc.statd[9340]: Version 1.2.3 starting Mar 28 22:17:14 gecko sm-notify[9341]: Version 1.2.3 starting Mar 28 22:17:14 gecko sm-notify[9341]: Already notifying clients; Exiting! Mar 28 22:17:14 gecko rpc.statd[9340]: failed to create RPC listeners, exiting I ended up going back to the 1.2.2-5 version of the packages which worked again. The following system information is from when I went back to the older version of the package, but gives an idea of where everything else is at. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages nfs-common depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii initscripts 2.88dsf-13.1 scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcap2 1:2.20-1 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libcomerr2 1.41.12-2 common error description library ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.9+dfsg-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libgssglue1 0.2-1 mechanism-switch gssapi library ii libk5crypto3 1.9+dfsg-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C ii libkrb5-3 1.9+dfsg-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libnfsidmap2 0.24-1 An nfs idmapping library ii librpcsecgss3 0.19-2 allows secure rpc communication us ii libwrap0 7.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.45 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii portmap 6.0.0-3 RPC port mapper ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv nfs-common recommends no packages. nfs-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information Regards, -- ---------- Jim Barber DDI Health -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d912506.4040...@ddihealth.com