NFS Export Not Mounting During Boot - Help Needed

[MidnightWatcher]

I'm using Webmin 1.580 with Linux Mint 13 (x64, Cinnamon) and created an NFS export (export/media) which works perfectly fine after manually enabling the export, but when I reboot the system it tells me that it is unable to mount it, and I need to skip it in order to resume booting. How can I find out the root cause of this problem? I upgraded from Mint 10 and didn't have this issue at all.

[MidnightWatcher]

Anyone?

[altair4]

I haven't used NFS in a decade and at the time SysAdmin set it up for me so I'm not the right person to help you with all this but ...

As I remember it an export is something a server designates as being shared to NFS clients. So this error at boot coming from the Mint13 Server is confusing me. What is it that's not mounting? The partition or folder mounted in /media? It can't be the export itself that's not mounting because the server isn't mounting the export. If the error is coming because the partition or directory in /media is not mounting at boot and therefore the export fails then that's a different problem. Do you have the source of the export mounting automatically at boot?

Like I said I know nothing about NFS so worst case consider this a bump.

[kwisher]

You need to be more specific. The exports is used by the server. Which system were you creating the export on with Webmin? Once the export is created on the server, you should be able to mount the share on a client machine. Please post the output of the following command from the server machine:

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cat /etc/exports

On a client machine please post the output from :

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cat /etc/fstab

[MidnightWatcher]

Hi kwisher, I'm referring to my server. I can create the NFS export no problem in Webmin and enable it. My OpenElec HTPC upstairs connects without issue. The problem is whenever I reboot my server it does not mount the export during any reboot. I am prompted to skip or mount it manually, so I press "S" to skip to continue booting and have to then go back into Webmin, recreate the export and enable it all over again.

[altair4]

Hi kwisher, I'm referring to my server. I can create the NFS export no problem in Webmin and enable it. My OpenElec HTPC upstairs connects without issue. The problem is whenever I reboot my server it does not mount the export during any reboot. I am prompted to skip or mount it manually, so I press "S" to skip to continue booting and have to then go back into Webmin, recreate the export and enable it all over again.

Your server is not trying to mount the export - that's something the client does. It sure sounds like the server is not automounting the partition that has the folder that you want to export. Had you provided the information kwisher requested you would have had this fixed by now.

This would have confirmed the location of what you were trying to export:

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cat /etc/exports

This command from the server would have indicated if you were trying to automount the partition:

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cat /etc/fstab

Only one other piece of information is needed and that is the output of this command. It would have indicated the UUID number of the partition and how it is formatted:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null