I've been using debian for over 7 years now. Allways to my satisfaction.

But now since august 2007 i've been having a bit of problems with nfs mounting at boot-time.
My NFS server is on Stable, all the clients are on testing.
I have 3 NFS mounts at boot-time in fstab.
Most of the time only 2 of them get mounted correctly and 1 gives a boot error :
Sometimes none of the NFS shares get mounted at boot-time also
I've tried moving the startup scripts to a later time at boot but that didn't help me.
If none was mounted at boot-time i have to do "mount -a" a couple of times to get them mounted. They always mount eventually, but also with the same error as above the first time to try.

Did anyone find a solution for this annoying problem?

For those curious :
Changing the hostname from the nfs-server in the fstab line to the ip address of the nfs-server seems to work better.
I still wonder why...
My name resolving works fine otherwise.

I have seen a similar problem and if you watch the startup scripts execute you may see "no route to host" error messages. This indicates that the routing tables have not be fully initialized before the nfs entries in the fstab file are attempted. On one system we have about 7-8 nfs entries and only the bottom half were getting mounted. A sleep command in the network startup script worked. I am not sure if there is another fix available to resolve this. I have added the IP address, ensured the server name was resolving etc. You may only want to add the sleep statement to the start stanzas vice the main body of the script to eliminate unecessary delays in the shutdown or network stop commands.