On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 20:55 -0500, Jim Duda wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> Adding *.daemon simply resulted in the same information being dumped to 
> the syslog file, however, twice.  So, no new information.

That should be daemon.* and usually you would log it to a different file
when adding a syslog entry like that but I don't think that will make
any difference.

I can't remember how logging to a syslog server works now but does the
syslog configuration on the server also limit what is logged?

> 
> Once automount gets wedged, I cannot use gdb to interrogate the threads, 
> I cannot break into the program after it's wedged.
> 
> I'm by no means a power gdb user.

Me nether.

> 
> I did:
> 
> set detach-on-fork off, simply based on a recommended help from ddd.
> 
> I traced the program all the way down into mount_bind.c, in the 
> mount_init function, then into spawn.c, where it did the first fork. 
> The program was wedged in spawn.c on line 186 at the first do while loop 
> after the fork.
> 
> The program though do_read_master, mod->lookup_int, then into open_mount 
> for "nfs" before it got to the first spawn.
> 
> I don't know how helpful any of this information is for you in helping 
> me determine what is different about my funky root file system which 
> causes a lockup, but thanks for trying.

I'm not sure either but one thing is sure, problems are almost always
different from what you think they are when you finally get hard
evidence.

In autofs-5.0.1-31, line 186 corresponds to an if statement?

How about we try getting rid of a recent patch to this area of the code
and rebuild autofs and see if that helps. The one I have in mind is
close to the chopping block already.

In particular:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] F-7]$ cvs diff -u autofs.spec 
Index: autofs.spec
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/pkgs/rpms/autofs/F-7/autofs.spec,v
retrieving revision 1.221
diff -u -r1.221 autofs.spec
--- autofs.spec 21 Dec 2007 10:21:18 -0000      1.221
+++ autofs.spec 4 Jan 2008 02:20:20 -0000
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
 %patch35 -p1
 %patch36 -p1
 %patch37 -p1
-%patch38 -p1
+#%patch38 -p1
 %patch39 -p1
 
 %build



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