> Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:21:57 -0500
> From: "Cliff McDiarmid" <[email protected]>
> To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Autofs problem on LFS7.2
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> Sorry about the delay, have been offline, but here are the files. No luck
> manually creating the relevant dirs.
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No probs re 'delay'. Thanks for files. We'll test a few of the more-immediate
things, and if that's no-pasa then we can take a step back and check the wider
picture (e.g. kernel config, modules, /proc). Btw, am not assuming that you
don't already know some or all of the stuff in the following; am erring on the
side of perhaps over-including info.
Let's focus on the sandisk for now - presumably it's a usb-stick?
The immediately-relevant config lines are:
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auto.master:/media/auto /etc/auto.misc --ghost
auto.misc:cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom
auto.misc:sandisk -fstype=vfat,sync,gid=floppy,umask=002 :/dev/sdb
auto.misc:memstick -fstype=vfat,sync,gid=floppy,umask=002 :/dev/mmcblk0p1
==
For things to work ok with those two configs, you must have *at least*:
--
* /media/auto is an already-existing directory: automount (IME) won't create
it,
whether automatically or otherwise.
Normally want (owner, group, perms) = (root, root, 0755) for both /media and
/media/auto
* The usbstick is assigned device '/dev/sdb' .
NB and be clear that the assig of '/dev/sdb' to the usbstick, is not done by
automount.
Verify device-assig via e.g. /var/log/{messages,debug,syslog} or similar.
* The settings '-fstype=vfat,sync,gid=floppy,umask=002' settings in auto.misc,
should be not at odds with either how the usbstick is formatted, or the
user-permissions/umask/group-memberships/&c of the user that is trying to use
the automount facility.
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There are other files & setup that might need to be adjusted; we can as noted
come to that if necessary - it's normally not complicated.
If the above is all-ok, then you should see the following behaviour:
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* connect usbstick to usb port of computer.
* the command 'ls /media/auto/sandisk' should show you the contents of the
usbstick.
Note that just doing 'ls /media/auto' will likely just show an
apparently-empty
dir: instead, you need to specify the full '/media/auto/sandisk' path.
==
If that does not work, then try the following (I know you've likely done a lot
of variations):
**NB** to adjust pathnames (in a consistent manner) in the following, if the
objects already exist.
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* work directly as root-user.
* use a new test area for automounting to:
if [ ! -e /testautomount ] ; then
install -o root -g root -m 0755 -d /testautomount ;
fi;
* have only the following in /etc/auto.master :
/testautomount /etc/auto.testautomount
* create a new test automount-map:
if [ ! -e /etc/auto.testautomount ] ; then
install -o root -g root -m 0644 /dev/null /etc/auto.testautomount ;
fi;
* have only the following in /etc/auto.testautomount :
sandisk -fstype=vfat,sync,gid=floppy,umask=002 :/dev/sdb
Just to double-check: if you mount /dev/sdb manually using those mount-opts,
then it goes all-ok?
----
If that still does not work, then we can get some further info on your working
environment wrt autofs.
rgds,
akh
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