In article <[email protected]>, John D. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >I finally got my i386-current systems set up to investigate this further. > >One thing I hadn't thought about before is that normally, there is only >one 'amd' process managing all the automount points. > >In the case of the system with processes stuck in "tstile", something >spawns a second 'amd' process and it is this second process that gets >stuck. I suspect is is trying to service the same mount points that >are already active and so gets stuck.
Amd always forks to do things that might get stuck, like mounts and unmounts. christos
