[Bug 1371564] Re: statd incompatible with /var as a separate filesystem

[Maciej Puzio]

For a system with a separate /var partition, the workaround from year 2010 appears to work:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/525154/comments/8

For the Ubuntu 14.04 this workaround translates to:

--- /etc/init/statd.conf.ORIG   2013-09-11 16:46:50.000000000 -0500
+++ etc/init/statd.conf 2015-06-02 16:24:42.029659358 -0500
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # TYPE=nfs is handled in the "statd-mounting" job.
 #
 start on (started portmap ON_BOOT=
-          or (virtual-filesystems and started portmap ON_BOOT=y))
+          or (virtual-filesystems and mounted MOUNTPOINT=/var and started portmap ON_BOOT=y))
 stop on stopping portmap
 
 expect fork

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Title:
  statd incompatible with /var as a separate filesystem

Status in nfs-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I've a server that stubbornly doesn't mount NFS filesystems on boot.
  I upgraded it to 14.04 and the problem persists.  This time I dug
  deeper and discovered that the mount upstart jobs are blocked waiting
  for statd-mounting, which are waiting for statd to come up, but statd
  is in "stop/waiting" state and doesn't want to come up.

  /var/log/syslog shows

      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.356501] init: statd main process (1268) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.356511] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.363809] init: statd main process (1272) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.363819] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.370785] init: statd main process (1276) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.370795] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.382239] init: statd main process (1281) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.382250] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.394097] init: statd main process (1285) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.394107] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.400026] init: statd main process (1289) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.400037] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.411247] init: statd main process (1293) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.411258] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.421803] init: statd main process (1297) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.421813] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.429929] init: statd main process (1302) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.429939] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.442795] init: statd main process (1306) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.442805] init: statd main process ended, respawning
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.457698] init: statd main process (1310) terminated with status 1
      Sep 19 12:21:58 muskatas kernel: [    9.457708] init: statd respawning too fast, stopped

  If I 'sudo start statd' after logging in, the statd-mounting jobs are
  terminated and mountall proceeds to mount the NFS filesystems.

  I'm not sure how to debug this further.

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