One problem gone, another one turns up. When rpc.statd (nfs-common) tries to start before portmap, it’s gonna result in failure. Now, the logfile (/var/log/daemon.log) is gonna print a rather cryptic error message:

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Aug  4 15:54:25 xen2 rpc.statd[3419]: Version 1.1.2 Starting
Aug  4 15:54:25 xen2 rpc.statd[3419]: unable to register (statd, 1, udp).

After fixing the start order (I really hate SUSE/Debian* for not having init-script dependencies – like Gentoo’s baselayout/Roy’s openrc does have), everything is like it should be and I’m able to put the /srv/xen mount into the fstab …

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for i in /etc/rc2.d/ /etc/rc3.d/ /etc/rc4.d/ /etc/rc5.d/; do
 cd $i; rm S20nfs-common; ln -s ../init.d/nfs-common S21nfs-common;
done