Bug 681187

Summary:	cannot enable NFS client service for autofs
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4	Reporter:	Harald Dunkel <hdunkel>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Leonardo Chiquitto <lchiquitto>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	lchiquitto
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Description Harald Dunkel 2011-03-21 09:01:59 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

If I use autofs for NFS instead of hardwired mounts in /etc/fstab, then "/etc/init.d/nfs start" does not work. This breaks autofs, which makes 11.4 almost useless on our desktop PCs.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Harald Dunkel 2011-03-21 12:10:13 UTC

PS: The NFS startup script says

Not starting NFS client services - no NFS found in /etc/fstab: unused

Sorry, I should have mentioned this in my first post.

Comment 2 Leonardo Chiquitto 2011-03-22 12:08:26 UTC

Harald, you have to set $NFS_START_SERVICES to "yes" in /etc/sysconfig/nfs. Could you please test and report if it works? Thanks.

Comment 3 Harald Dunkel 2011-03-22 12:51:51 UTC

Ahh, I must have missed this option in yast. Seems to work.

Since NFS must be explicitly enabled in yast's runlevel menu I would suggest to make NFS_START_SERVICES=yes the default.

Comment 4 Leonardo Chiquitto 2011-03-22 13:01:27 UTC

Thanks for the quick feedback.

We're discussing how to improve the user-friendliness of the NFS client options when AutoFS is in use in bug #626516. So I'll mark this one as a duplicate, to concentrate the efforts.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 626516 ***