Re: Re: debug failed automount

[Robert Swan <rswanster@gmail.com>]

On 5/1/05, raven@themaw.net <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 raven@themaw.net wrote:
> 
> My response was a bit hasty I think.
> 
> > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Robert Swan wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >> >  One point is that the remote host is accessed through a VPN tunnel.
> >>
> >>  so as it turns out, this is the problem. The rpc_time call fails (I
> >>  assume this is because it is not supported by the VPN) and this marks
> >>  my only host as dead and automount does not attempt to mount. Even
> >>  though the mount actually works fine.
> >
> > Why? The rpc_ping connects to port 2049 on the target host.
> 
> You may be seeing a bug with the autofs mount code not trying a longer
> timeout if it fails to get a response in time.

I'm a bit confused myself because I can no longer replicate my
problem. I had made a test program to call your get_best_mount() with
my particular arguments so I could step through it, and  I'm _sure_
(aren't we all) that it would get a failed status from rpc_time at
line 238 and so would not assign a winner. I changed initial
assignment of "winner" at the start of the function which solved my
problem. I didn't look inside rpc_time to see what was going wrong; I
tried to do that today and now the status from rpc_time() is
successful, and your original code performs the mounts. So I don't
have a bug report and you can ignore me.

Is there a way to attach a debugger to the automount process that gets
spawned when the kernel attempts an automount?

Thanks anyhow for answering.

Robert

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