On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:44 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > 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.
That NFS problem was fixed in 2.6.18 I think. > > 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. Something has changed? > > 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. We'll need you to get a first hand look at a broken system and have a look around and see what really is wrong. And you know that a debug log would be good too. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
