If you use lighttpd in clustered conditions, you need nfs for file distribution. But the nfsmount-initscript is started after lighttpd is loaded. In this case lightppd can't get the www files. For this put in the depend section of the lighttpd-initscript a dependence of nfsmount. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: lighttpd isn't loaded
In addition to nfsmount (or, rather netmount which will use nfsmount if needed), the init.d depend also lacks "use dns". If using a local DNS server and binding lighty to domain names, it will fail to start. I recommend adding "use netmount dns" to the depend() section.
fixed in cvs - you will have to remerge lighttpd to get the changed init script installed. thanks for the report.