I experienced the same exactly behaviour with precise and NFS mount. Previously I used autofs to mount NFS share, but with precise, autofs give very poor performance (multiple freeze of my desktop when NFS was used).
here my fstab line for yhe NFS share : 192.168.0.12:/volume1/public /media/nas/public nfs defaults,user,noauto,noatime,intr,udp 0 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871385 Title: "Timeout while waiting for mount to appear" when mounting NFS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/871385/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs