On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 17:03 -0500, Jim Duda wrote:
> I'm attempting to use autofs on some diskless machines which operate 
> using an NFS mounted root file system.  I have three different computers 
> which share the same root file system (with unique /tmp and /var 
> directories) and the same 2.6.22 kernel.
> 
> I want to use autofs for removable USB memory sticks.
> 
> On one machine, I can use autofs just fine.  Autofs mounts and unmounts 
> the usb sticks as I expect it to.  Works nice.
> 
> However, on the other two machines, I cannot get automount to start.  It 
> simply hangs upon startup, I cannot ^C to exit or anything.  I have to 
> kill -9 the process.
> 
> I cannot figure out what automount is looking for, and not getting, 
> which would cause it to hang.  I've attempted to use gdb to help me find 
> the problem, but I haven't had much luck.  (I've downloaded the most 
> recent 5.0.2 tar bar and build automount with -g to debug.

Did you apply any of the patches for 5.0.2?

> 
> I'm hoping someone might shed some light on how best to debug this issue.

Have a look at http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer for what to collect and
post here.

Ian


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