Hello, I am experiencing autofs problems with my Centos 5.5 system. Upon boot, the mount fails with the following error messages (created by passing the -d option in the automount):
Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: do_notify_state: signal 15 Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: master_notify_state_change: sig 15 switching /home from 1 to 5 Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: st_prepare_shutdown: state 1 path /home Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: expire_proc: exp_proc = 1090562368 path /home Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: expire_cleanup: got thid 1090562368 path /home stat 0 Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: expire_cleanup: sigchld: exp 1090562368 finished, switching from 5 to 7 Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: st_shutdown: state 5 path /home Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 smartd[7258]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=7258. Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: umount_multi: path /home incl 0 Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: umounted indirect mount /home Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: automount_path_to_fifo: fifo name /var/run/autofs.fifo-home Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: shut down path /home Mar 8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: autofs stopped Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: Starting automounter version 5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5, master map auto.master Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: using kernel protocol version 5.01 Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: lookup_nss_read_master: reading master files auto.master Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: parse_init: parse(sun): init gathered global options: (null) Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: lookup_read_master: lookup(file): read entry /home Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: master_do_mount: mounting /home Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: automount_path_to_fifo: fifo name /var/run/autofs.fifo-home Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: lookup_nss_read_map: reading map file /etc/auto.home Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: parse_init: parse(sun): init gathered global options: rw,intr Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: do_mount_autofs_indirect: failed to create ioctl fd for autofs path /home Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: handle_mounts: mount of /home failed! Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: master_do_mount: failed to startup mount Mar 8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: no mounts in table The error messages to note are the last four lines. When I restart the daemon, the automount works, but fails after a day or two. The version of autofs I am using is: Name : autofs Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 5.0.1 Vendor: CentOS Release : 0.rc2.143.el5_5.6 Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. ---------- Wadud Miah High Performance Computing Systems Developer Research Computing Services, University of East Anglia Telephone: 01603 593856 Information Services ---------- _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list autofs@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs