From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ondrej Valousek Subject: Automounter hangs... Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:11:55 +0200 Message-ID: <48A03A9B.2070402@s3group.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: 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: autofs@linux.kernel.org Hi List, I have strange error (RHEL-4, autofs 4.1.3-234). Using automounter to mount home directories for users. After a while, /home got unusable and I see the following: root 17345 20453 0 10:33 ? 00:00:00 [automount] root 17348 20453 0 10:33 ? 00:00:00 [automount] root 20453 1 0 Aug05 ? 00:00:15 /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 --debug /home yp auto.home -rw I can not kill any of the processes listed (tried even kill -9). The last I can see in /var/log/messages is the following: Aug 11 10:32:39 login01 automount[17100]: expired /home/login Aug 11 10:33:01 login01 automount[20453]: attempting to mount entry /home/login Aug 11 10:33:01 login01 automount[17185]: mount(nfs): mounted belfast:/vol/users/users/login on /home/login Aug 11 10:33:09 login01 automount[17346]: expired /home/localmgr Aug 11 10:33:09 login01 automount[17348]: expired /home/support Maybe, the processes 17346 and 17348 failed to unmount /home/support and /home/localmgr. This perhaps caused even the parent process 20453 to hang. Has anyone seen anything similar? Is there any solution to this? Thanks, Ondrej