Boot failure "start job is running" Debian 8 [RESOLVED]

[frank4360]

I have just done a clean installation of Debian 8 on an Asus NetBook. I loaded from a USB stick using the image debian-8.8.0-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso

Every time I boot up the system, after displaying lots of startup lines the boot process halts with the message
"A start job is running for LSB: NFS support files co.." then the continually mounting elapsed time followed by "/no limit".
The Asus screen is too small to display whatever follows "co.." in the message.

If I force the system off and reboot, the system usually loads fine. It always fails if I close the system down normally.

There are usually several similar messages shown during the boot process ("A start job is running for......") with a variety of different ends to the message - these run for a short time and the boot then continues until stopping as noted above.

I have searched for the problem, and seen similar messages which seem to be related to the swap area; UUIDs and /etc/fstab - all of which seem to be fine.

Any ideas gratefully accepted.

[Dai_trying]

I had this happen once and had to remove nfs from my system as I didn't use it anyway, so if you don't use nfs for file sharing you can remove it. It's not really a fix but a workaround...

[frank4360]

I had this happen once and had to remove nfs from my system as I didn't use it anyway, so if you don't use nfs for file sharing you can remove it. It's not really a fix but a workaround...

Excellent!! Thanks very much - I removed NFS and all is now well.

For information:- in a terminal as root I ran

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service nfs-kernel-server stop

and

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service portmap stop

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then

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apt-get --purge remove nfs-kernel-server nfs-common portmap

Thanks again.

[Dai_trying]

You're welcome, glad it helped.