Hi,
I've a problem with automount when booting.
This is the output to /var/syslog (mystampede is the name of my installation
of the stampede distrib.):
Oct 3 16:45:16 mystampede automount[59]: starting automounter version
3.1.3, path = /disk, maptype = file, mapname = /etc/auto.disk
Oct 3 16:45:16 mystampede automount[59]: Map argc = 1
Oct 3 16:45:16 mystampede automount[59]: Map argv[0] = /etc/auto.disk
Oct 3 16:45:16 mystampede automount[67]: starting automounter version
3.1.3, path = /cdrom, maptype = file, mapname = /etc/auto.cdrom
Oct 3 16:45:16 mystampede automount[67]: Map argc = 1
Oct 3 16:45:16 mystampede automount[67]: Map argv[0] = /etc/auto.cdrom
Oct 3 16:45:16 mystampede automount[67]: using kernel protocol version 3
Oct 3 16:45:16 mystampede automount[59]: >> can't create lock file
<---- !!!
/etc/mtab~~: No such file or directory (use -n flag to override)
Oct 3 16:45:16 mystampede automount[59]: /disk: mount failed!
The result of mount is:
mystampede:~# mount
/dev/hda10 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
automount(pid67) on /cdrom type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=67,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
Strangely if I check /proc/mounts I got:
mystampede:~# cat /proc/mounts
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
automount(pid59) /disk autofs rw 0 0 <---- !!!!!!!!
automount(pid67) /cdrom autofs rw 0 0
Strangely, of the 2 mount points /cdrom and /disk, is not always the same that
suffers of this problem, sometime one, sometime the other.
By tries, one solution is umount what is not mounted:
mystampede:# umount -v -n /disk
Could not find /disk in mtab
/disk umounted
so now /proc/mounts reads:
mystampede:# cat /proc/mounts
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
automount(pid67) /cdrom autofs rw 0 0
and now one can restart:
mystampede:/var/log# /etc/rc.d/rc.autofs restart
Checking for changes to /etc/auto.master ....
Start automount /disk file /etc/auto.disk
The kernel is 2.2.2, the autofs is version 3.1.3 that I compiled for the
stampede 0.89.
Is the problem a sign of a bad previous shutdown?
Is a problem of /etc/rc.autofs ? maybe a sync is needed between one mount
point and the other?
Many thanks in advance
Bye
