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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