Re: 2.6.23-mm1 - autofs broken

Rik van Riel
2007-10-20T05:13:29Z

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:31:26 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/
>
> - I've been largely avoiding applying anything since rc8-mm2 in an
> attempt to stabilise things for the 2.6.23 merge.

Between rc8-mm2 and 2.6.23-mm1, autofs stopped working in the
-mm kernel.

Instead of mounting my home directory, I get these messages in
/var/log/messages:

Oct 20 00:38:52 kenny automount[2293]: cache_readlock: mapent cache
rwlock lock failed
Oct 20 00:38:52 kenny automount[2293]: unexpected pthreads error: 11 at
65 in cache.c

I am not sure if this is due to autofs changes or changes in some other
code that was merged. If you can think of any suspicious change that
I should test, please let me know.

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