Bug 134772 – autofs maintains deleted filehandles in /var/spool/up2date

Bug 134772 - autofs maintains deleted filehandles in /var/spool/up2date

Summary:	autofs maintains deleted filehandles in /var/spool/up2date

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	autofs (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeffrey Moyer
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2004-10-06 03:54 EDT by Trond H. Amundsen
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-04-04 07:43:15 EDT
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Output of 'lsof /var' (75.50 KB, text/plain) 2004-10-06 03:56 EDT, Trond H. Amundsen	no flags	Details
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Description Trond H. Amundsen 2004-10-06 03:54:19 EDT

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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 03:56:33 EDT

Created attachment 104829 [details]
Output of 'lsof /var'

Comment 2 Jeffrey Moyer 2005-02-11 13:40:02 EST

This is very odd, indeed.  Could you post your auto.master and related maps?

Comment 3 Trond H. Amundsen 2005-04-04 07:43:15 EDT

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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