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 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
