Re: clients suddenly start hanging (was: (no subject))

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:12 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 18:02 -0700, Jim Carter wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Ian Kent wrote:
> > 
> > > So here is autofs-5.0.3-submount-shutdown-recovery-8.patch.
> > > Please try it instead of revision 7.
> > 
> > The patch went on cleanly.  However, there was a problem in execution.
> > The output was:
> > 
> > 17:00:14 --                   #1, chkd 0, run 0, OK 570, mtd 2, of 570
> > 
> > Jun 20 17:00:22 serval automount[2799]: unexpected pthreads error: -1 at 
> > 901 in master.c
> 
> Ooops, I didn't pay enough attention when I read the pthread barrier man
> page. That isn't actually an error return but now I'm wondering why I
> haven't seen it in my test, very odd.
> 
> Let me fix it and we'll try again.
> 
> There are other problems but I need to know if this is a viable approach
> before going further with it.
> 
> Try this instead.
> 
> autofs-5.0.3 - fix submount shutdown handling.

Actually it might be better to wait for a little and give me a chance to
try and fix the expiration.

Ian