[Bug 1167337] Re: nfs4 mounts hang in bootup with upstart starting rpc.gssd

[Steve Langasek]

So while there have been updates to the gssd job in later releases,
these updates were to change the job so that it does not depend on
portmap *at all*.  The rationale is that gssd is not actually supposed
to need to talk to rpcbind... and this is true of the version in 12.04
as well.

And in any case, even when there was a dependency on portmap, this was
only supposed to ever have been relevant for NFSv3, not for NFSv4.

So I don't see how rpc.gssd starting before portmap was actually causing
this problem for you.  Could you try installing the /etc/init/gssd.conf
and /etc/init/gssd-mounting.conf jobs from Ubuntu 12.10, to see if the
problem persists?

** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  nfs4 mounts hang in bootup with upstart starting rpc.gssd

Status in “nfs-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  System 12.04.2 32 and 64bit. nfs4 with krb5/ldap authentication.
  No network-manager!

  A nfs4 mount results in a system hang, if rpc.gssd is started before rpcbind (portmap) and the filesystem is defined as:
  nfs4    sec=krb5....
  in /etc/init/gssd.conf the start condition is
     start on (started portmap
            or mounting TYPE=nfs4 OPTIONS=*sec*krb5*)

  So when the file system is defined as:   nfs4   sec=krb5
  upstart does not wait on portmap (rpcbind) and starts sometimes rpc.gssd before rpcbind. This lead to mounting errors and prevents the further bootup.

  My solution at the moment is to define the file systems as:
      ... nfs  vers=4,sec=krb5...

  which works at the moment.
  (I have also added 
      NEED_GSSD=yes
      NEED_IDMAPD=yes
  to /etc/defaults/nfs-common

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