Hi Jason, I understand your comment #12 that we can eliminate the symlink from the equation. It is not needed for you to trigger the issue - thanks for that hint.
The only differences between my try to reproduce in comment #3 and yours are: - you set more NFS options in the master file - you use direct [1] mounts while I used indirect ones I modified my config accordingly to be more similar to yours: Instead of /etc/auto.master /vol /etc/auto.nfs /etc/auto.nfs home -fstype=nfs,rw,retry=0 192.168.122.247:/mnt/sharedfolder I now use: /etc/auto.master /- /etc/auto.nfs --timeout=0,-fstype=nfs,nfsvers=3,rw,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 /etc/auto.nfs /vol/home 192.168.122.247:/mnt/sharedfolder That still comes up just fine after boot (with symlink for home): ubuntu@bionic-autofs-client:~$ mount | grep nfs /etc/auto.nfs on /vol/home type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=6,pgrp=735,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=18438) 192.168.122.247:/mnt/sharedfolder on /vol/home type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=192.168.122.247,mountvers=3,mountport=48863,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.122.247) ubuntu@bionic-autofs-client:~$ ll /home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 3 10:02 /home -> /vol/home/ ubuntu@bionic-autofs-client:~$ ll /home/ubuntu/ total 44 drwxr-xr-x 5 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 May 6 06:34 ./ drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 4096 May 3 09:53 ../ -rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 330 May 6 06:35 .bash_history Since you said changing the symlink isn't needed I switched to mount /home directly /etc/auto.nfs /home 192.168.122.247:/mnt/sharedfolder That worked just as much. ubuntu@bionic-autofs-client:~$ mount | grep home /etc/auto.nfs on /home type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=6,pgrp=715,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=18223) 192.168.122.247:/mnt/sharedfolder on /home type nfs (rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=192.168.122.247,mountvers=3,mountport=48863,mountproto=udp,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.122.247) But then I realized one more difference - out of habit I used the latest LTS which is Bionic, but you reported the bug on Xenial. The setup is easy to copy over. Let me set the same up on Xenial to be sure that it works for me on that version as well. [1]: https://linux.die.net/man/5/auto.master -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1827286 Title: autofs - "Too many levels of symbolic links" after apt upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs5/+bug/1827286/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
