Hi, I'm not sure how useful this is in tracking down the expiry problems, but it might give you a couple of hints, so I'm passing it on. :-)
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--- Begin Message ---Just to entertain you a bit, I found out that often (but not always), one can manually mount the required nfs volumes and everything works again. $ cd archive bash: cd: archive: No such file or directory $ ls -ld archive lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 8 10:19 archive -> /fs/doom/var/lib/mythtv/archive/ (== the usual case, although with kernel 2.6.16.9). $ mount doom:/ /fs/doom $ mount doom:/localvol4 /fs/doom_localvol4 $ cd archive $ # worked So just *maybe*, what hapeons is that automount tries to mount the volume and fails for whatever reason (it would be interesting to know it, maybe I can find out), and then leaves the mountpoint in an unusable state till reboot. I think one could investigate this path, to see what happens if mounting the volume fails in autmount. Likely it doesn't have a clean path to back out if this happens (it might return an error in this access, but *must* retry eventually, otherwise intermittent errors would require reboots of clients). Just a theory, of course. I'll try to find out what causes the mount failure, although this will not be easy. Peculiar are these messages: Jun 25 12:08:02 cerebro automount[1309]: attempting to mount entry /fs/doom/var Jun 25 12:08:02 cerebro automount[3452]: failed to mount /fs/doom/var Jun 25 12:08:02 cerebro automount[3452]: umount_multi: no mounts found under /fs/doom/var Jun 25 12:08:10 cerebro automount[1309]: attempting to mount entry /fs/doom/root Jun 25 12:08:10 cerebro automount[3460]: failed to mount /fs/doom/root Jun 25 12:08:10 cerebro automount[3460]: umount_multi: no mounts found under /fs/doom/root As the mountpoints mentioned do not exist (/fs/doom is a mountpoint, but not /fs/doom/something). -- The choice of a -----==- _GNU_ ----==-- _ generation Marc Lehmann ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / http://schmorp.de/ -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE
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