Hello Ian, Thank you for your reply. The contents of /etc/sysconfig/autofs are:
[root@head00 ~]# grep -v '^#' /etc/sysconfig/autofs TIMEOUT=300 BROWSE_MODE="no" USE_MISC_DEVICE="yes" [root@head00 ~]# When the machine boots up, it completely fails to mount /home/<username>; it just complains that /home/<username> doesn't exist. The contents of /var/log/messages then show the message given below, thus I assume that they are related. Do let me know if you require further information. Googling around for the error message hasn't been very successful :-( Thanks for your help, Wadud. >-----Original Message----- >From: hpc.admin-boun...@uea.ac.uk [mailto:hpc.admin-boun...@uea.ac.uk] On >Behalf Of Ian Kent >Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 1:29 AM >To: hpc.ad...@uea.ac.uk >Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org >Subject: Re: [autofs] autofs problem > >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Hpc.admin mailing list >hpc.ad...@uea.ac.uk >http://www.uea.ac.uk/mailman21/listinfo/hpc.admin _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
