In Devuan Beowulf, I installed nfs-common so I could mount some nfs shares, but the mount on boot does not work. After boot is complete, I can mount my nfs shares manually.

Looking in the logs, I see the following error: /run/rpcbind not owned by root failed!

This is caused by an incorrect path (see https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/10/msg01012.html), which can be fixed by the following:

echo 'PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin"' >> /etc/default/rpcbind

/etc/default/rpcbind is called in the startup scripts, so this will add /usr/bin to the path when nfs is started.

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/10/msg01012.html