Bug 134772 - autofs maintains deleted filehandles in /var/spool/up2date
Summary: autofs maintains deleted filehandles in /var/spool/up2date
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: autofs
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Moyer
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-06 07:54 UTC by Trond H. Amundsen
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-04-04 11:43:15 UTC
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Output of 'lsof /var' (75.50 KB, text/plain)
2004-10-06 07:56 UTC, Trond H. Amundsen
no flags Details

Description Trond H. Amundsen 2004-10-06 07:54:19 UTC
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Description of problem:
/var was full on some boxes, causing up2date to fail, complaining
about insufficient space on /var/spool/up2date. Further investigation
showed that 'df /var' and 'du -skx /var' gave very different output.
'lsof /var' showed that automount for some reason had lots of open
filehandles on deleted files in /var/spool/up2date. Se the attachment
for the actual output. A restart of autofs solved the problem. The
problem was seen on boxes with different kernels.

This is a weird one.. why would automount keep open filehandles on rpm
files and header files in /var/spool/up2date in the first place, and
even when those files are deleted?

I'm not sure how to attack this. Please let me know if you need more
information.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
autofs-4.1.3-12

How reproducible:
Couldn't Reproduce


Additional info:

Comment 1 Trond H. Amundsen 2004-10-06 07:56:33 UTC
Created attachment 104829 [details]
Output of 'lsof /var'

Comment 2 Jeff Moyer 2005-02-11 18:40:02 UTC
This is very odd, indeed.  Could you post your auto.master and related maps?

Comment 3 Trond H. Amundsen 2005-04-04 11:43:15 UTC
I'm sorry, but I can't remember which boxes had this problem, and I haven't seen
this problem since I reported it, so I can't follow up this one. I'll close the
bug and reopen it if I ever find out more.


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