Ondrej Valousek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi List,
>
> I have strange error (RHEL-4, autofs 4.1.3-234). Using automounter to
> mount home directories for users. After a while, /home got unusable and
> I see the following:
>
> root     17345 20453  0 10:33 ?        00:00:00 [automount] <defunct>
> root     17348 20453  0 10:33 ?        00:00:00 [automount] <defunct>
> root     20453     1  0 Aug05 ?        00:00:15 /usr/sbin/automount
> --timeout=60 --debug /home yp auto.home -rw
>
>
> I can not kill any of the processes listed (tried even kill -9).
> The last I can see in /var/log/messages is the following:
> Aug 11 10:32:39 login01 automount[17100]: expired /home/login
> Aug 11 10:33:01 login01 automount[20453]: attempting to mount entry
> /home/login
> Aug 11 10:33:01 login01 automount[17185]: mount(nfs): mounted
> belfast:/vol/users/users/login on /home/login
> Aug 11 10:33:09 login01 automount[17346]: expired /home/localmgr
> Aug 11 10:33:09 login01 automount[17348]: expired /home/support
>
> Maybe, the processes 17346 and 17348 failed to unmount /home/support and
> /home/localmgr. This perhaps caused even the parent process 20453 to hang.
>
> Has anyone seen anything similar? Is there any solution to this?
> Thanks,

It rings a bell, but I can't put my finger on it.  Can you reproduce
this?  If so, could you send along a debug log?  Instructions for
collecting debug information can be found at:
  http://people.redhat.com/~jmoyer/

Cheers,

Jeff

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