+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #124600 +++ From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: We are currently seeing the following error messages appearing in the RHEL 3.0 system logs (/var/log/messages): kernel: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... These error messages appear to be related to automount unmounts; they appear to always be immediately preceded or followed by an automount expiration. E.g.: May 18 02:26:50 mm2dev15 kernel: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... May 18 02:26:50 mm2dev15 automount[27846]: expired /usr/prod/viewstore118 -or- May 14 09:51:29 mm2dev11 automount[12358]: expired /usr/test/phxscfm4 May 14 09:51:29 mm2dev11 automount[12358]: expired /usr/test/labspt May 14 09:51:29 mm2dev11 automount[12358]: expired /usr/test/land25 May 14 09:51:29 mm2dev11 kernel: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... May 14 09:51:29 mm2dev11 automount[12358]: expired /usr/test/ldbuomc3 May 14 09:51:29 mm2dev11 automount[12358]: expired /usr/test/fstest May 14 09:51:29 mm2dev11 automount[12358]: expired /usr/test/ftwbtsrq Further, we have turned off automount expirations on several systems (via '--timeout 0') and these error messages appear to go away when we do so. (We are experiencing unexplained system instability in our RHEL 3.0-U1 systems and are trying to track down and resolve any unexpected error messages that may be contributing to this instability.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure and turn on the automounter 2. Automount file systems 3. Wait for those automounts to expire; sometimes this error message will accompany it Additional info: The following may be a useful/related reference: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Previously+anonymous+dentries+were+hashed%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=nfs-valinux.15186.9973.696326.885764%40notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au&rnum=1
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An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-551.html