On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, jansen wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been struggling to figure out why autofs does not appear
> to unmount many mount points.  I have more than 150 entries in
> a map file and most of these entries get mounted when I log into
> a Gnome session and never seem to ever get unmounted.  This
> happened under RedHat 8.0 (autofs-3.1.7-33) and still happens on
> SuSE 9.0 (autofs-3.1.7-717).  I'm guessing that Nautilus is doing
> this.  Is anyone else seeing this?  Any suggestions on how to prevent
> or debug this?  I can provide more details if anyone is interested.

Bit unfortunate they never umount.

The problem is that Nautilus scans the directory if/when it notices umount 
activity. This causes a remount. I couldn't find a way to trun it off. The 
list of directories to scan is help in a file (I can't remember where now) 
and I was able to stop it, to some extent, by cleaning it out and changing 
the modes on the file (for non-root login anyway).

I started working on this some time ago but did not get anywhere before 
other things took priority. To fix this means digging into Nautilius. A 
significant task in itself. The people on the Nautilus list would probably 
help but they would need a significant time investment from an autofs 
development person. Any volunteers?

Ian

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