Re: mount: mount point /home/user does not exist

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> Ian Kent wrote:
>> Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
>>> Recently I had failures in some hosts when mounting home directories, in
>>> some cases more than one host at a time.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> 
> Would upgrading autofs from 4.1.3-234 to 4.1.3-238 be enough, or do I
> need to upgrade to the latest kernel as well?

Above I was actually referring to the kernel, although I didn't make
that clear. The RHEL-4.8 kernel update fixed almost all reported kernel
related problems (there were a couple).

> 
> Would using the "autofs5" package in RHEL4 be better in this sense? Do
> you know if that package is as stable as autofs 4 is in RHEL4?

That a trick question, right?
As the maintainer I will always recommend version 5.

The RHEL-4 autofs5 package is essentially the same as the RHEL-5 autofs
package except that it's a release behind, as updates are back ported.
The back porting of RHEL-5 updates will be somewhat more selective from
RHEL-4.9 onward.

Ian