When Does NFS Get Enabled At Boot?

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
>> On 06/10/2013 01:43 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 13.04 I can mount NFS shares from the command line no problem, but if
>>>> I
>>>> try to do it at boot time from fstab, the system hangs and says it is
>>>> waiting for idmapd and statd to start.
>>>
>>>
>>> Try adding "_netdev" to the fstab options of the nfs mounts. They'll
>>> be attempted after the network's up; and hopefully after rpc.idmapd is
>>> started. (rpc.statd isn't used by/needed for nfs4.)
>>>
>>> I'm using nfs and not nfs4 on Ubuntu but AFAIK there's an upstart job
>>> to ensure that idmapd is started before an nfs4 mount is attempted.
>>> You might want to file a bug report against this job if its "start on
>>> ..." statement isn't starting it when it's meant to.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll look into this. As a matter of interest, where are
>> the upstart job definitions found? Are they plain text editable?
>
> You're welcome.
>
> They're text files in "/etc/init".

It's best to override a job rather than edit it directly.

cp /etc/init/<job>.conf /etc/init/<job>.override
vi /etc/init/<job>.override