On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 11:24 +0000, hpc.ad...@uea.ac.uk wrote: > Hello, > > I am experiencing autofs problems with my Centos 5.5 system. Upon boot, the > mount fails with the following error messages (created by passing the -d > option in the automount): > > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: do_notify_state: signal 15 > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: master_notify_state_change: sig 15 > switching /home from 1 to 5 > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: st_prepare_shutdown: state 1 path > /home > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: expire_proc: exp_proc = 1090562368 > path /home > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: expire_cleanup: got thid 1090562368 > path /home stat 0 > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: expire_cleanup: sigchld: exp > 1090562368 finished, switching from 5 to 7 > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: st_shutdown: state 5 path /home > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 smartd[7258]: smartd has fork()ed into background > mode. New PID=7258. > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: umount_multi: path /home incl 0 > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: umounted indirect mount /home > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: automount_path_to_fifo: fifo name > /var/run/autofs.fifo-home > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: shut down path /home > Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: autofs stopped > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: Starting automounter version > 5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5, master map auto.master > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: using kernel protocol version 5.01 > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: lookup_nss_read_master: reading > master files auto.master > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: parse_init: parse(sun): init gathered > global options: (null) > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: lookup_read_master: lookup(file): > read entry /home > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: master_do_mount: mounting /home > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: automount_path_to_fifo: fifo name > /var/run/autofs.fifo-home > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: lookup_nss_read_map: reading map file > /etc/auto.home > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: parse_init: parse(sun): init gathered > global options: rw,intr > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: do_mount_autofs_indirect: failed to > create ioctl fd for autofs path /home > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: handle_mounts: mount of /home failed! > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: master_do_mount: failed to startup > mount > Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: no mounts in table > > The error messages to note are the last four lines. When I restart the > daemon, the automount works, but fails after a day or two. The version of > autofs I am using is:
What makes you think these are the same problem? Did you check to see if /home was already mounted when it failed? What is in your /etc/sysconfig/autofs? > > Name : autofs Relocations: (not relocatable) > Version : 5.0.1 Vendor: CentOS > Release : 0.rc2.143.el5_5.6 > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > ---------- > Wadud Miah > High Performance Computing Systems Developer > Research Computing Services, University of East Anglia > Telephone: 01603 593856 > > Information Services > ---------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > autofs mailing list > autofs@linux.kernel.org > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
