From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stef Bon Subject: Re: Some reload problems. Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 18:01:37 +0200 Message-ID: <4821D261.8090600@bononline.nl> References: <481F1623.1050505@bononline.nl> <1209999972.2768.8.camel@raven.themaw.net> <4820299C.7000907@bononline.nl> <1210165881.8830.6.camel@raven.themaw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1210165881.8830.6.camel@raven.themaw.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org Errors-To: autofs-bounces@linux.kernel.org To: Ian Kent Cc: autofs@linux.kernel.org Ian Kent wrote: >> May 6 11:32:15 localhost automount[5773]: autofs stopped >> >> So this is what happens. >> > > So, autofs just exits. > > The problem is that autofs needs to know when to exit and that amounts > to checking if any active mounts are left. But that check breaks down > because we need to avoid it unless we've actually been asked to shutdown > and, at the moment, this isn't known to the function that does the > check. The condition is checked every time a mount point shuts down. > > I think I can fix this fairly easily but, for it to be a simple fix, we > will need a patch I'm working on to be merged first. > > So you're stuck, for a while anyway. > Well I'm not really stuck. The way I've solved it is to add another mountpoint to /etc/autofs/auto.master which remains there. Then there is no problem. And I can wait. Thank you for looking to this problem. With all these steps I hope I can create a contruction which allows a more powerfull access to network resources than there exist today. Stef Bon