Hi Victor-

Victor Sterpu wrote:
> I try to mount the /var partition at boot time.
> 
> I receive the following error at boot time:
> statd: server localhost not responding, time out
> lockd: cannot monitor 192.168.250.90
> lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.250.90
> 
> This is my /etc/fstab :
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> 192.168.250.90:/var/nfs/mail2.ambra.ro /var nfs defaults 0 0
> 
> When I do "mount 192.168.250.90:/var/nfs/mail2.ambra.ro /var" the 
> partition is mounted succesfuly.
> I use kernel 2.6.20 with nfs and automount support.
> 
> Haw can I mount this nfs partition at boot time?

Since the NFS file locking manager uses files in /var, you need to mount 
/var with the "nolock" mount option.  See nfs(5).