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Re: [autofs] Is there a known problem with recent Fedora systems core dumping?

Jeff Moyer
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:13:54 -0700

Piete Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've not managed to get a useful backtrace from the core dumps I get, but is 
> there a known problem with the recent (6 .. 9) Fedora RPMs?
> We use recursive mounts, but I think I've seen it when they aren't being used.
> Basically a core dump appears in / and some part of the automount space stops 
> working (but other bits still work).
>
> Under Fedora Core 6 (autofs-5.0.1-0.rc3.33) it happened to just one research 
> group (who do things differently from everyone else), but as of Fedora 9 
> (autofs-5.0.3-15) it appears to happen to others (e.g. me!).
> It's intermittent (e.g. about once per day)
>
> Has anyone come across such a problem?

If you are using ldap for your maps, then yes, and upgrading openssl
will fix your problems.  If not, then I'll have to defer to Ian on this.

Cheers,

Jeff

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