i also attempted a boot w/the nfs server's ip address instead of hostname (although technically i guess "nfs-home" is an alias). no change, /home was still not mounted automatically on boot by mountall.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mountall in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1384502 Title: fstab entry for nfs /home fails to mount on boot Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: i'm uncertain exactly when this issue started as we use cfengine (verifies all expected mounts in place, manually mounts those that are not). from a note i have i believe it goes back as far as lucid. the symptom is that an /etc/fstab entry for an nfs-mounted /home is not mounted during the system boot. once the system is network- accessible, manually running `mount -tnfs -av` as root (or using cfengine or any number of other solutions) is sufficient. per lp#836533 i added "--verbose" to /etc/init/mountall.conf and will attach the resulting /var/log/upstart/mountall.log and /etc/network/interfaces. the smoking gun appears to be: mount.nfs: Failed to resolve server nfs-home: Temporary failure in name resolution ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: mountall 2.53 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-38.65.lp1383921-generic 3.13.11.8 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-38.65-generic x86_64 .run.mount.utab: ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Oct 22 16:35:47 2014 ProcEnviron: TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh ProcKernelCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-38.65-generic root=/dev/md0 ro consoleblank=0 console=tty0 console=ttyS2,115200n8 nomdmonddf nomdmonisw bootdegraded=true SourcePackage: mountall UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/1384502/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
