Ian, I do have daemon.*, I got it backwards in the last post.
I downloaded autofs-5.0.2.tar.gz, do you want me to download 5.1.31 ? Jim Ian Kent wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
