Do you have autofs compiled into the kernel or is it a module? If it's a
module, you may want to try compiling it in. It sounds like a race
between the module loader and automount.
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Doug Harple / Community Connect
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, John Murtari wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We are running the standard 2.2.12 SMP kernel/no patches
> and are getting "occasionally" some boot problems from
> autofs.
>
> We mount several files systems in our auto.master
> ====
> /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout 28800
> /usr/local /etc/auto.local -n,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> /pub/comwww /etc/auto.comwww -n,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 --timeout 600
> /pub/cgi-bin /etc/auto.cgi -n,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> /export/lathe /etc/auto.lathe -n,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> /home /etc/auto.home -n,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> /export/anvil /etc/auto.anvil -n,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> /export/torch /etc/auto.torch -n,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
> ===
>
> on startup sometimes one or two of the automounter starts will
> "sometimes" fail. Today we saw the following:
>
> =====
> Sep 14 12:31:25 lathe autofs: Starting automounter:
> Sep 14 12:31:25 lathe automount[1025]: >> mount: fs type autofs not supported by
>kernel
> Sep 14 12:31:25 lathe automount[1025]: /pub/comwww: mount failed!
> Sep 14 12:31:25 lathe rc: Starting autofs succeeded
> =====
>
> The mount of /pub/comwww/ failed. We then just put
> in the automount command on the command line and it started fine.
> Is there some type of timing/locking problem when a bunch of
> autmount processes are started at once?
>
> Is there some experiment we can run to delay the processing
> of each mount?
>
> Best regards!
> John
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