On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:31 -0800, Jim Carter wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, David wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# ypcat -k auto.master
> > /home auto.home
> --- snip ---
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# ypcat -k auto.home | head -8
> > magnusa hirst:/homes/hirst/dsk1/&
>
> We do almost exactly the same thing, except our auto.home map includes the
> full path name, i.e.
> prob-mp sonia:/h1/guest/prob-mp
> rather than using the &. But I'm sure this is not your problem. I
> explicitly specify the map type in /etc/auto.master, i.e.
> /home yp:auto.home
> but again, I doubt that has anything to do with your problem.
Neither of these helped, and indeed nothing I found on the net seemed to
have any impact.
>
> We're using autofs-4.1.3; what version are you using?
4.1.2 and 4.1.3 depending on Fedora installation.
>
> Since automounting works perfectly if it's a file map, I'm inclined to
> blame YP and not look at either NFS mounting or autofs. (Do log files
> suggest that I'm wrong here?)
Log files say hardly anything, even when automaount is started with -v
and or -d.
My guess is that autofs misinterprets the YP maps in some way. Could it
be something with spaces versus tabs in the map files?
>
> Is it always the same users whose homedirs fail to mount? Or will Mangusa
> mount one day and not the next? Do all the workstations behave equally? I
> assume both servers have some failing users. Does the failure rate vary
> with the time of day or with obvious system activities like backups? I
> know that our YP wierds out at 2 AM when the backups kick off, because the
> network is overloaded.
No it's consistently the same failure and also for different autofs
versions. The auto.home map contains little over 100 entries with 10
>
> YP relies on UDP. If there were network problems that ate YP packets
> intermittently, it would explain the problem. If a workstation pings the
> YP server host (at a time of day when automount failures are seen), what's
> the packet loss rate? Is there any other reason to suspect flakiness in
> the YP server and/or client? Suppose you do "ypmatch $user auto.home",
> iterating over and over through all your users, do you see any failures?
> (We don't, except during backups.)
The following simple script showed me that 57 out of 105 entries in the
auto.home file actually are not matched, indicating that this is indeed
a YP problem. Are there some cached YP files somewhere? Restarting yp
did not help.
#!/bin/csh -f
foreach user ( `ypcat -k auto.home | awk '{ print $1 }'` )
ypmatch -k $user auto.home
end
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David.
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