==> Regarding Re: [autofs] automount never umount; Farkas Levente <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> adds:

lfarkas> Ian Kent wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jeff Moyer wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Sure, you could enable debug.  I just didn't want to get too much
>>>>> information.  However, at this point, it's probably better that we
>>>>> get as much as possible so Farkas doesn't have to keep trying new
>>>>> patches.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Farkas, please look at the output of dmesg and let us know what you
>>>>> find.  You should see something like this:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> # dmesg |sort|uniq
>>>> 
>>>> autofs4_revalidate: revalidate called on behalf of application
>>>> "automount" autofs4_revalidate: revalidate called on behalf of
>>>> application "multiload-apple"
>>>> 
>>>> so what can i do? no longer use multiload-applet ? this is a standard
>>>> gnome applet included in fc4: "System Monitor 2.10.1"
>>> so what is the conclusion now?  will autofs be modified to umount even
>>> in such case or ...?  thnaks.
>> 
>> 
>> I'm not familiar with this applet.  Can someone help ot?

lfarkas> which kind of distro do you use? on fedora/redhat it's in
lfarkas> gnome-applets package and anyway in:
lfarkas> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/multiload/

I'm not convinced it's the culprit.  As Ian mentioned earlier in this
thread, there is no flurry of mount/umount activity.  The file system gets
mounted, and then never unmounted, right?  If that is the case, and lsof
shows no users, then this is likely an autofs bug.

-Jeff

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