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Bug#1138209: nfs-kernel-server: Parameter RPCNFSDCOUNT from /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server is ignored after Upgrade from Deb12

From Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#1138209: nfs-kernel-server: Parameter RPCNFSDCOUNT from /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server is ignored after Upgrade from Deb12
Date 2026-05-29 23:20 +0200
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Hello Ben,

there is no mentioning of this IMHO breaking change in a Deb12's /usr/share/doc/nfs-kernel-server/NEWS.Debian.gz. Besides… usual systems can have many hundreds of NEWS files. Nobody is able to read those during a system upgrade, and there was no mentioning of this fact in neither https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/index.en.html nor https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues.en.html — I always read these pages very carefully before upgrading. Maybe, I'm part of a minority with my setup…

I presume the new intended way of handling things is editing /etc/nfs.conf, and setting the threads parameter within [nfsd]. It would have been really helpful if the package upgrade scripts would do this parameter migration if they have been changed, and give a warning with e. g. dialog.

I'll revisit the initscript and /etc/default, and clean up manually, so the Deb14-Upgrade will go smoothly.

Thanks for the insight!


Am 29.05.2026 um 22:47 schrieb Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:

> On Fri, 2026-05-29 at 22:44 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> This was an intentional change.  Support for
>> /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server was deprecated in bookworm (as documented
>> in NEWS) and removed in trixie.
> 
> Correction: it has not yet been removed, but that is the intent.
> 
> Ben.

:wq! PoC

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Bug#1138209: nfs-kernel-server: Parameter RPCNFSDCOUNT from /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server is ignored after Upgrade from Deb12 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> - 2026-05-29 13:50 +0200
  Bug#1138209: nfs-kernel-server: Parameter RPCNFSDCOUNT from /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server is ignored after Upgrade from Deb12 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2026-05-29 22:50 +0200
    Bug#1138209: nfs-kernel-server: Parameter RPCNFSDCOUNT from /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server is ignored after Upgrade from Deb12 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2026-05-29 23:00 +0200
    Bug#1138209: nfs-kernel-server: Parameter RPCNFSDCOUNT from /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server is ignored after Upgrade from Deb12 Patrik Schindler <poc@pocnet.net> - 2026-05-29 23:20 +0200
      Bug#1138209: nfs-kernel-server: Parameter RPCNFSDCOUNT from /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server is ignored after Upgrade from Deb12 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2026-05-29 23:30 +0200
  Bug#1138209: marked as done (nfs-kernel-server: Parameter  RPCNFSDCOUNT from /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server is ignored after Upgrade  from Deb12) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2026-05-29 22:50 +0200

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