Comment 3 for bug 45842

I have similar issues:
My NFS shares are not mounted on startup. This is totally deterministic (always the case), so I don't think that this is the same problem as #44836 or #46516. They are really not mounted (it's not the mtab issue). I can also relieably mount them using mount -a as root.

I have investigated a bit further in the problem: nfs shares are mounted by the /etc/init.d/networking script, which starts ifup, which runs /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs. Now in my case, when /etc/init.d/networking runs, eth0 is already configured (probably by some plug'n'play script and DHCP), so ifup does not start any interfaces, thus does not execute the if-up.d scripts, thus nfs is not mounted. I did no modifications to the init scripts so far. I found that out by inserting "ifconfig" at the beginning of the /etc/init.d/networking script, which showed me that my interfaces were already up.

Also, if I do /etc/init.d/networking stop; /etc/init.d/networking start manually after booting up, then all my nfs shares get mounted, which shows that the script itself is okay, but it makes wrong assumptions about the state of the system before it runs.

My system is Dapper Flight 7 AMD64 with the latest updates, so it should be the same as the release candidate, last update was made today (26. may 2006).