[Bug 1270445] Re: slow NFS4 without "NEED_GSSD=yes"

[Reinhard]

Since I reported this bug, I did not change the scripts which are installing my workstations (UBUNTU 14.04)
Putting "NEED_GSSD=yes" into "/etc/default/nfs-common" still makes no sense to me, 
but it works, so I wonder, why it is not working in Kubuntu/Xubuntu? 

Is it possible, that this bug is a problem in communication between
server and client?

My Server runs Ubuntu 11.04, with changed
"/etc/default/nfs-kernel-server" 
"/etc/default/nfs-common" 


this is the server configuration in "/etc/default/nfs-common" 
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# If you do not set values for the NEED_ options, they will be attempted
# autodetected; this should be sufficient for most people. Valid alternatives
# for the NEED_ options are "yes" and "no".

# Do you want to start the statd daemon? It is not needed for NFSv4.
NEED_STATD=

# Options for rpc.statd.
#   Should rpc.statd listen on a specific port? This is especially useful
#   when you have a port-based firewall. To use a fixed port, set this
#   this variable to a statd argument like: "--port 4000 --outgoing-port 4001".
#   For more information, see rpc.statd(8) or http://wiki.debian.org/SecuringNFS
STATDOPTS=

# Do you want to start the idmapd daemon? It is only needed for NFSv4.
NEED_IDMAPD=yes

# Do you want to start the gssd daemon? It is required for Kerberos mounts.
NEED_GSSD=no
----------------------------------------------------------------

this is the server configuration in "/etc/default/nfs-kernel-server" 
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# Number of servers to start up
# To disable nfsv4 on the server, specify '--no-nfs-version 4' here
RPCNFSDCOUNT=8

# Runtime priority of server (see nice(1))
RPCNFSDPRIORITY=0

# Options for rpc.mountd.
# If you have a port-based firewall, you might want to set up
# a fixed port here using the --port option. For more information,
# see rpc.mountd(8) or http://wiki.debian.org/SecuringNFS
RPCMOUNTDOPTS=--manage-gids

# Do you want to start the svcgssd daemon? It is only required for Kerberos
# exports. Valid alternatives are "yes" and "no"; the default is "no".
NEED_SVCGSSD=no

# Options for rpc.svcgssd.
RPCSVCGSSDOPTS=

# Options for rpc.nfsd.
RPCNFSDOPTS=
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Title:
  slow NFS4 without "NEED_GSSD=yes"

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

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 14.04 NFS4 client has slow access to NFS - share, if standard
  in /etc/default/nfs-common is left as "NEED_GSSD=".

  In syslog message 
  [406568.806179] RPC: AUTH_GSS upcall timed out.  
  [406568.806179] Please check user daemon is running.
  can be found.

  If default is changed to "NEED_GSSD=yes" access speeds up to normal (= good as in 12.04).
  I do not use Kerberos, so to set this option to "yes" does not make sense.

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