How to solve nsf-common related error when install zsh in ubuntu?

Question

Everytime I install some kind of package, at the last phase, apt-get install could return a common-nfs related error. Why the installation can't be done without this error?

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This question is not the same as https://serverfault.com/questions/486804/what-are-the-most-common-reasons-for-nfs-auto-mounts-to-fail

Answer 1

The reason that every apt-get installation reports the problem with nfs-common is that apt-get is trying to recover from a previous problematic installation of nfs-common. If you run "dpkg -l nfs-common", the first two characters will show a state other than 'ii' (not sure what, but an error state of some sort).

The root problem appears to be: "/etc/init.d/statd not found" That file is part of nfs-common, so presumably it has been deleted inadvertently (or deliberately) at some point.

If you have backups, restore that file from them. If not, you'll need to get it from the package; you could do something like this:

cd /tmp mkdir nfs-common cd nfs-common dpkg-deb -x /var/cache/apt/archives/nfs-common* . ls -l etc/init.d/statd cp etc/init.d/statd /etc/init.d/statd

This assumes the nfs-common deb file is still in the cache.

Once /etc/init.d/statd is back, run:

apt-get -f install

to get apt/dpkg to fix up the package installation.