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From: Ondrej Valousek <webserv@s3group.cz>
Subject: expire_indirect errors in the syslog
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:46:45 +0100
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Hi all,

I am seeing quite lot of following messages in the syslog:
Oct 21 02:17:05 ara automount[3181]: expire_indirect: fstat failed: Bad
file descriptor

On RHEL-5.2, last updates, autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.88.
I have seen some discussion on the net (bug #448038) regarding this
error and what is common is, that my  NFS server is using the "nohide"
option.

Question - is this bug dangerous or not? Is there any resolution to
this? Recently I have experienced our logon server instability (Gnome
session frozen) due to a problem with gnome-vfs so I do not know if this
is related....
Thanks,

Ondrej