I'm experiencing problems with autofs. I use autofs to mount home directories
under `/home'. Some of them are on local disks, others are mounted using NFS.
Suddenly the automounter gets stuck, `/home' is no longer accessible and all
processes accessing home (e.g. sendmail, imapd, ...) end up in `D' state
(uninterruptible sleep). The load average increases, sendmail refuses to accept
connections and the machine becomes unusable.
Then I can no longer stop or restart autofs, nor kill (-15 or -9) the stuck
processes. The only thing that helps is a reboot.
Machine: Amiga 4000 running Linux/m68k 2.2.3pre1 (the `pre' is a m68k label,
the kernel is based on the real 2.2.3). When looking at the changelogs at
www.linuxhq.com, I see nothing changed in autofs since 2.2.3. The user space
tools are autofs-3.1.1-7 and mount-2.9g-6.0.1 (both Debian). I'm not using NIS,
but a plain file map in /etc/auto.home.
Anyone with a solution? Or tips for debugging this problem? Could it be a m68k
specific problem (other machines (ia32) on the net don't suffer from the
problem)? Although this machine is the mailrelay for our site, I have no
problems testing kernels on it. Currently it has to be rebooted several times a
day anyway.
Thanks!
Greetings,
Geert
P.S. Please CC your replies to me. I'm on many Linux lists, but not on the
autofs-list.
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Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
