On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:39 -0500, Jim Summers wrote:
> Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > Jeff Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> >> Jim Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hello All,
> >>>
> >>> Just hit a hiccup with autofs5.  Everything was going along fine and then 
> >>> had 
> >>> a user call and say they could not get their home on a machine.  I did 
> >>> some 
> >>> quick checking and some mounts were working and others not.  below is a 
> >>> bit of 
> >>> the debug log and some other info.  the user, gerardo is the one who 
> >>> called 
> >>> me.  entries in the debug log for him are the same as the tmac user.  in 
> >>> that 
> >>> it get his ldap info tries to mount but then says it is already mounted 
> >>> and 
> >>> then fails????
> >>>
> >>> client machine is FC6 hand compiled autofs version:
> >>> autofs-5.0.1-20
> >>> autofs-debuginfo-5.0.1-20
> >>> with a patch from Ian.
> >> What is the kernel version on the client?
> 
> 2.6.22.1-32.fc6
> 
> > 
> > I'm guessing that you have 2.6.22.1-13.fc6 or later installed.  These
> > kernels include the "nosharecache" patch for NFS.  This patch can
> > cause some mounts to fail with -EBUSY.  You can revert the
> > nosharecache patch to get the old behaviour back.
> 
> is this accomplished with boot option similar to 'noacpi' or something like 
> that?

It's a mount option.
Check your nfs-utils. I believe that revision 14 and above will
understand the "nosharecache" option.

Add this as a global option by changing:

#OPTIONS=""

to

OPTIONS="-O nosharecache"

in /etc/sysconfig/autofs, near the bottom and let us know if this helps.

Ian


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