Barry Shaw wrote:
>
> We've got a problem with the automounter on our main file server. As usual
> the automount brings peoples homes into /home/<user> on demand. Other machines
> on the network also mount homes off this machine using the automounter in a similar
> way.
>
> The problem arises when we get a stale NFS handle in /home and the automounter
> dies. The automounter wont restart, complaining that its already running or
> /home is busy. This seems to come from the entries in /proc/mounts.
>
The automounter shouldn't die because of a stale NFS handle. Send
SIGUSR1 to automount to force it to unmount any filesystems it can. If
it can't umount the filesystems, killing the automounter isn't going to
help.
-hpa
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