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

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.
>    The missing file: /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01-ifupdown

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