[Bug 1371564] Re: statd fails to come up on boot

[Marius Gedminas]

Aargh, I keep forgettnig about /var/log/upstart/!

It's not very informative:

    $ sudo cat /var/log/upstart/statd.log
    UPSTART_EVENTS = 

Perhaps this is because statd came up fine when I started it manually,
some time after boot?  I tried rebooting again, but the contents of that
file did not change.

    $ cat /etc/default/nfs-common
    # 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 gssd daemon? It is required for Kerberos mounts.
    NEED_GSSD=

By the way it seems that  am using NFSv4, which shouldn't need statd at
all according to that comment.  My /etc/fstab contains

    fridge:/home	/home		nfs	auto,rw,hard,intr,_netdev	0 0
    fridge:/stuff	/fridge/stuff	nfs	auto,rw,hard,intr,_netdev	0 0

but when I 'sudo mount -a' to force NFS mounts, /proc/mounts lists these
as 'nfs4'.

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Title:
  statd fails to come up on boot

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

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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