Subject: bug#925: Excalibur: NetworkManager doesn't mount NFS resources from fstab

From: Andre Kiepe <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 17:56:22 +0100

Package:    network-manager
Version:      1.52.1-1devuan1

On a fresh-install of Devuan6 excalibur, after having installed nfs-common,
NFS-resources listed in /etc/fstab are not mounted.
This could be remedied by copying a file from Devuan5 daedalus to the new
system.
The missing file: /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01-ifupdown
No error or failed-entries can be found in the system-logs (dmesg, syslog,
boot) about network-manger or NFS.

The system was plainly standard-installed using the Devuan-installer
(excalibur), selecting these options:

   - Devuan desktop environment
   - Cinnamon
   - Console productivity
   - SSH server

I'm now using
Linux [hostname] 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian
6.12.48-1 (2025-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux
lsb_release: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur)
This system is connected by Ethernet, not wifi.

André Kiepe

Systems Engineer & Training Consultant

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 19:15:01 +0000

Andre,

Thanks for this.

On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 05:56:22PM +0100, Andre Kiepe wrote:
>    Package:    network-manager
>    Version:      1.52.1-1devuan1
>    On a fresh-install of Devuan6 excalibur, after having installed
>    nfs-common, NFS-resources listed in /etc/fstab are not mounted.
>    This could be remedied by copying a file from Devuan5 daedalus to the
>    new system.

This appears to have been removed in Debian[1]. The commit message says

  Many of those script are not meant to be run within a NetworkManager
  context. Packages that would benefit from reacting on such network state
  changes should install a native NetworkManager-dispatcher script.
  The interface is documented in more detail in the
  NetworkManager-dispatcher(8) man page.

I can't see that ifupdown has started to ship such a native
NetworkManager-dispatcher script.

We can certainly see if reverting this commit causes any problems.

Mark

[1]  https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/0fbfebd3a199dde0407321adfa9ecde67af5dc92

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From: "Devuan bug Tracking System" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:44:04 +0000

This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report
which was filed against the network-manager package:

#925: Excalibur: NetworkManager doesn't mount NFS resources from fstab

It has been closed by [email-masked].

Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
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Subject: #925: fixed in src:network-manager version 1.54.1-1devuan2
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:42:02 +0000

Version: 1.54.1-1devuan2

Source package network-manager (1.54.1-1devuan2) added to Devuan suite unstable.

This closes bug report 925.

Thanks

DAK managing the Devuan archive

Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:17:47 +0000
Source: network-manager
Architecture: source
Version: 1.54.1-1devuan2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Changed-By: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Closes: 925
Changes:
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 .
   * Revert "Stop executing ifupdown hook scripts on network state changes"
     (Closes: #925).
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Subject: Excalibur: NetworkManager doesn't mount NFS resources from fstab
From: Andre Kiepe <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 17:56:22 +0100

Package:    network-manager
Version:      1.52.1-1devuan1

I'm now using

André Kiepe

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From: Andre Kiepe <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 10:18:11 +0100

Good morning dak,
thank you for your message.
Am I to understand NetworkManager will be patched/fixed once ceres becomes
a release?
Do you suggest I do with the work-around for Devuan Excalibur? I can
certainly do that. I'm pretty sure sometime a corrected version for
Exccalibur will come and life for some Devuan users will be easier.

Anyway, thanks for your your efforts and have a good day.
Regards, André

André Kiepe

(Technical Assistant, PPE Résidence du Vieux Moulin)

Systems Engineer & Training Consultant
E-Mail: [email-masked]

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From: Andre Kiepe <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2025 11:52:58 +0100

Good morning,
I have new information concerning the networkmanager problem:
A comparative test with an Artix-test-installation might be helpful to Mark
Hindley.
You can find the files here:

Workaround applied as suggested by steve_v:
https://pastebin.com/4CcBTkEV

Configuration on Artix-OpenRC-Cinnamon:
https://pastebin.com/3KuU9mUy

I hope this helps.
My best greetings,
André

André Kiepe

Systems Engineer & Training Consultant
Phone Nr. +41 79 648 2625 (also Voice Mail)
E-Mail: [email-masked]