Herbert Wengatz wrote:
>
> Hello there!
>
> I'm in deep troubles right now. I have a medium sized network (about 30)
> of Linux-Systems (all under RH 6.2) with Kernels 2.2.14 or 2.2.16
> and all are using autofs 3.1.4-4 (according to the rpm-name) right out of
> the box.
>
> I have one homeserver (with two filesystems) which is used at the same time
> as the NIS server. I had it all up and running on all my clients,
> but since last weeks thursday I experience on all clients the same
> behaviour:
>
> - I can ping the server
> - I can rlogin/telnet to the server
> - some of my clients can even mount some filesystems via samba
> - I can mount the exported filesystems (NFS) by hand (!) to a named path on
> the
> clients.
> - The "auto.home" is exported via NIS, an 'ypcat auto.home' works on the
> client
> (the configuration has been running for a couple of weeks now...)
> - ypwhich shows the correct server name
> - I can restart/reload/start/stop the automounter via the autofs-command
> without any errormessage.
> - I can see no error in any logfile (perhaps I've overlooked something here?)
>
> but still, when my users try to log in, the login hangs for a long time
> and then comes back with "no such file or directory /home/foobar, logging in
> with
> home=/"
>
> When I try to enter the directory as root (on the client) it doesn't complain,
> but an "ls" shows nothing (root_squash?). But for a user it fails completely.
> "pwd" shows for root the correct pathname "/home/foobar" - At the same time
> "mount" shows that the ...
>
... shows that the WHAT?
How about actually sharing what is in the log files (if there is nothing
in the log files at all, something is really wrong, probably your
syslog.conf.) Note that the versions you're running are positively
ancient; the "cd into an empty directory instead of failing" was a bug
fixed a long time ago.
Mount waiting a long time is usually an indication that it can't talk to
the server, i.e. it mount and it fails. It should leave an error message
in the logs.
-hpa
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