You have been subscribed to a public bug: We have an issue with Upstart not restarting the autofs job when the automount process dies, and the Upstart job status gets stuck in the "stop/starting" state. The process is not automatically restarted by Upstart like it is supposed to. Trying to manually control the job fails too:
root@www1:~# initctl status autofs autofs stop/starting root@www1:~# initctl stop autofs initctl: Job has already been stopped: autofs root@www1:~# initctl start autofs ^C <-- hangs root@www1:~# initctl restart autofs ^C <-- hangs Starting the automount process manually works just fine, but Upstart still does not recognize that the job is running. I've tried initctl reload-configuration but that didn't change anything. Rebooting has fixed the problem in the past, but is not a permanent solution since this is a production web server and we've seen this problem pop up a few times - often months apart from each other. We need to track down the problem and find a fix for it. I tried posting at http://askubuntu.com/questions/289103/initctl-status- autofs-is-stuck-on-stop-starting before reporting a bug but I received no suggestions. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: upstart 1.5-0ubuntu7.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-virtual 3.2.40 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-virtual x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri May 3 08:55:16 2013 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: upstart UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: autofs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise -- initctl status autofs gets stuck on stop/starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1176020 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to autofs in Ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
