I also hit this bug after upgrading to lucid, and found an explanation
of the root of the problem here: http://www.mail-archive.com/libvirt-
us...@redhat.com/msg00328.html.
The upstream fix is
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=7a90f21655aedc35cf711264498ebb4a1b783c8a.
It applies
Our site configuration stores auto.master in NFS for ease of updating.
(Yes it should perhaps move to LDAP, but that is beyond my control.)
Karmic autofs starts correctly about half of the time, depending on
whether the NFS mount finishes before autofs gets around to reading its
config. (I'm not