Hi, in Debian and Ubuntu, the configuration file /etc/nfs.conf is only placed on disk in the postinst script[1]. In this scenario it's possible to have the nfs-common generators run before /etc/nfs.conf exists[2], via another package's postinst calling systemctl daemon-reload. Since there is no /etc/nfs.conf yet, defaults are assumed and the generators exit silently, and the corresponding static units are used. But in Debian/Ubuntu, the rpc_pipefs directory is /run/rpc_pipefs, and not the one specified in the static units, and thus we get it mounted in the wrong directory. It seems best to always rely on the generators, as they will always be able to produce the correct target and mount units. For reference, this was first brought up in this thread[3]. Producing an upstream set of patches was a bit confusing, since these systemd units are highly distro dependent. They are not even installed via `make install` because of this, so I have more confidence in the first patch of the series. I produced a Debian package with these two patches applied on top of Debian's 2.6.3[6], and ran the DEP8 tests of nfs-utils[4] and autofs[5], which exercise some simple v3 and v4 mounts, with and without kerberos. These tests passed[7][8] (ephemeral links, will be gone once the PPA is destroyed). 1. https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/tree/debian/nfs-common.postinst?h=applied/ubuntu/devel#n6 2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/1971935/comments/22 3. https://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=165729895515639&w=4 4. https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/tree/debian/tests?h=applied/ubuntu/lunar-devel 5. https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/tree/debian/tests?h=applied/ubuntu/lunar-devel 6. https://code.launchpad.net/~ahasenack/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+git/nfs-utils/+ref/upstream-nfs-utils-test 7. https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-mantic-ahasenack-nfs-upstream-test/mantic/amd64/a/autofs/20230728_135149_0895b@/log.gz 8. https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-mantic-ahasenack-nfs-upstream-test/mantic/amd64/n/nfs-utils/20230728_150122_3ef18@/log.gz Andreas Hasenack (2): Always run the rpc_pipefs generator Use the generated units instead of static ones configure.ac | 8 +------- systemd/Makefile.am | 5 ----- systemd/rpc-pipefs-generator.c | 3 --- systemd/rpc_pipefs.target | 3 --- systemd/rpc_pipefs.target.in | 3 --- systemd/var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount | 10 ---------- systemd/var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount.in | 10 ---------- 7 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 41 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 systemd/rpc_pipefs.target delete mode 100644 systemd/rpc_pipefs.target.in delete mode 100644 systemd/var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount delete mode 100644 systemd/var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount.in -- 2.39.2
