Darrel Hankerson wrote:
>
> H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Is there anyway to clear this without having to restart the machine?
>
> 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.
>
> To repeat the earlier question: is there a way to clear this without
> having to restart the machine? I made the mistake of trying to
> restart the automounter when there were automounted directories. I
> was unable to get autofs working without a reboot.
>
Manually umount all directories, including the autofs itself.
-hpa
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