autofs mounting certain home directories for no reason

autofs mounting certain home directories for no reason

[Krish Pillai]

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I just upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 
(2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64) on some of my machines and autofs seems 
to be acting up. My server is running fc7.
I have ypbind and automount running on all clients and the clients seem 
to be repeatedly sending mount/umount  requests to the server on behalf 
of users who are not even trying to log in. As a result I see home 
directories getting mounted on the clients and getting unmounted all the 
time. Is this a known problem? If so, is there a fix?
Krish

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Re: autofs mounting certain home directories for no reason

[Ian Kent]

Krish Pillai wrote:
> I just upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 
> (2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64) on some of my machines and autofs seems 
> to be acting up. My server is running fc7.
> I have ypbind and automount running on all clients and the clients seem 
> to be repeatedly sending mount/umount  requests to the server on behalf 
> of users who are not even trying to log in. As a result I see home 
> directories getting mounted on the clients and getting unmounted all the 
> time. Is this a known problem? If so, is there a fix?

I'm not aware of a problem.

You probably should collect information as described at 
http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer and log a bug. The debug log and autofs 
maps are probably the most important bits initially.

Ian

Re: autofs mounting certain home directories for no reason

[Jeff Moyer]

Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> writes:

> Krish Pillai wrote:
>> I just upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 
>> (2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64) on some of my machines and autofs seems 
>> to be acting up. My server is running fc7.
>> I have ypbind and automount running on all clients and the clients seem 
>> to be repeatedly sending mount/umount  requests to the server on behalf 
>> of users who are not even trying to log in. As a result I see home 
>> directories getting mounted on the clients and getting unmounted all the 
>> time. Is this a known problem? If so, is there a fix?
>
> I'm not aware of a problem.
>
> You probably should collect information as described at 
> http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer and log a bug. The debug log and autofs 
> maps are probably the most important bits initially.

This is most likely some application in F10 (like the gnome trash
daemon) that is triggerring lookups in the home directory.  Automount,
in and of itself, doesn't usually try to do extra work.  ;)

-Jeff