I'm trying to debug a very weird problem I've started seeing with autofs over the last couple of days. The machines I'm seeing this on are all running Fedora Core 5 i386, fully updated (autofs 4.1.4-33 and kernel-smp 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5). Yes, I'm in the process of rolling out F7, but that will still take at least a couple of weeks and in the meantime I'd like to get to the bottom of this if possible.
We use autofs to automount user home directories under /home. Some users are reporting that their home directories are just disappearing out from under them; attempts to write to them result in "permission denied". Only once have I seen a system in this state (users keep rebooting the machines) and I don't have a screen capture, but I recall that df showed the user directory as being "there" but showed dashes instead of numbers for the capacity figures. Unfortunately I don't recall what showed up in the Filesystem column. I can't think of anything which has changed on the affected systems. Since they're running FC5 nothing is getting updated. The automount maps are served via LDAP and as far as I can tell the queries aren't failing. The server doesn't report any problems. Nothing has changed recently on either the LDAP servers or the NFS servers. So I'm at a complete loss here. If I can access a system while the problem is manifesting I'm sure I can find some more useful information but until then I was hoping that either someone might have seen something liks this and had an idea of what might be causing it or someone might have some idea of how I might go about debugging this. I have debugging turned on but haven't seen anything useful yet. - J< _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
