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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: mount: mount point /home/user does not exist
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:38:24 +0800
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To: Filipe Brandenburger <lists.filbranden@idilia.com>
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Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using autofs-4.1.3-234 on a RHEL 4 machine, using kernel
> 2.6.9-78.0.1.ELsmp, getting automount maps from LDAP.
> 
> Recently I had failures in some hosts when mounting home directories, in
> some cases more than one host at a time.
> 
> I found this on the NFS client's log:
> 
>> Jun 30 16:51:21 clnt automount[9458]: >> mount: mount point /home/user
>> does not exist
>> Jun 30 16:51:21 clnt automount[9458]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure
>> srvr:/export/home/user on /home/user
>> Jun 30 16:51:21 clnt automount[9458]: failed to mount /home/user
> 
> But on the NFS server, this is all I see:
> 
>> Jun 30 16:51:21 srvr rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
>> clnt.example.com:731 for /export/home/user (/export/home) 

This does sound a bit like a known problem.
A bunch of patches have gone into RHEL-4 U8 which resolved almost all
reported problems. You will need to log a bug or update to U8 to check.

Ian