Re: autofs problem

From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
To: hpc.admin@uea.ac.uk
Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: autofs problem
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:29:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299979760.2906.3.camel@perseus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501cbdd83$5e9a35d0$1bcea170$@admin@uea.ac.uk>

On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 11:24 +0000, hpc.admin@uea.ac.uk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am experiencing autofs problems with my Centos 5.5 system. Upon boot, the
> mount fails with the following error messages (created by passing the -d
> option in the automount):
> 
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: do_notify_state: signal 15
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: master_notify_state_change: sig 15
> switching /home from 1 to 5
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: st_prepare_shutdown: state 1 path
> /home
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: expire_proc: exp_proc = 1090562368
> path /home
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: expire_cleanup: got thid 1090562368
> path /home stat 0
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: expire_cleanup: sigchld: exp
> 1090562368 finished, switching from 5 to 7
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: st_shutdown: state 5 path /home
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 smartd[7258]: smartd has fork()ed into background
> mode. New PID=7258.
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: umount_multi: path /home incl 0
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: umounted indirect mount /home
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: automount_path_to_fifo: fifo name
> /var/run/autofs.fifo-home
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: shut down path /home
> Mar  8 10:38:19 cn024 automount[6395]: autofs stopped
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: Starting automounter version
> 5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5, master map auto.master
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: using kernel protocol version 5.01
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: lookup_nss_read_master: reading
> master files auto.master
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: parse_init: parse(sun): init gathered
> global options: (null)
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: lookup_read_master: lookup(file):
> read entry /home
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: master_do_mount: mounting /home
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: automount_path_to_fifo: fifo name
> /var/run/autofs.fifo-home
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: lookup_nss_read_map: reading map file
> /etc/auto.home
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: parse_init: parse(sun): init gathered
> global options: rw,intr
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: do_mount_autofs_indirect: failed to
> create ioctl fd for autofs path /home
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: handle_mounts: mount of /home failed!
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: master_do_mount: failed to startup
> mount
> Mar  8 10:38:28 cn024 automount[7334]: no mounts in table
> 
> The error messages to note are the last four lines. When I restart the
> daemon, the automount works, but fails after a day or two. The version of
> autofs I am using is:

What makes you think these are the same problem?
Did you check to see if /home was already mounted when it failed?
What is in your /etc/sysconfig/autofs?

> 
> Name        : autofs                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 5.0.1                        Vendor: CentOS
> Release     : 0.rc2.143.el5_5.6             
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> 
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> Wadud Miah
> High Performance Computing Systems Developer
> Research Computing Services, University of East Anglia
> Telephone: 01603 593856
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