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 +, 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 : 5.0.1Vendor: 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
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