dead lock (autofs and/or mount)

[cedric briner <work@infomaniak.ch>]

sarge
autofs-4.1.3
mount-2.12p
uname -r : 2.6.8-3-686

hello,
I'm having such difficulties between the mount and the autofs package.
When autofs want to mount a resource which is not available, i get into 
this situation:

in my situation a nested mount in unavailable!

# ps -efH

root      4588     1  0 Oct25 ?        00:00:00   /usr/sbin/automount
--pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_home_photom.pid --timeout=300 --ghost
/home/photom yp auto_home_photom

root     21442  4588  0 13:41 ?        00:00:00     /usr/sbin/automount
--pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_home_photom.pid --timeout=300 --ghost
/home/photom yp auto_home_photom

root     21444 21442  0 13:41 ?        00:00:00       [mount] <defunct>

root     21450     1  0 13:41 ?        00:00:00   mount --
obssb13:/export/diskA2/backup/carrier


# ypcat -k auto_home_photom | grep carrier
carrier -bg / obssb6:/export/diskA1/& /unsaved obssb6:/export/diskA2/&
  /backup obssb13:/export/diskA2/backup/&

do you have any idea how I can surpass such situation

thanks.

Ced

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Cedric BRINER
Geneva - Switzerland