Description of problem:

I am not sure if this is a kernel or am-utils bug, but this bug only happens on
RHEL 4 U4 but not U3 systems and am-utils didn't get updated in U4, so I am
filing this one under kernel.

We (Computer Science department at Cornell) use amd to auto-mount home
directories for our Linux infrastructure.  Maps are distributed using NIS
(ypserv and ypbind).

Ever since we upgraded some of our compute servers to U4, amd does not
automatically re-load new amd maps distributed by NIS.  For example, when we
create a new user account, amd maps get updated with the new user home directory
location just fine (proven using "ypmatch" on all compute servers).  However,
those servers that have been upgraded to U4 cannot see the new home directories.
 When trying to cd to the new home directories, /var/log/amd.log would show: 

Aug 28 11:28:09 tiger amd[2860]/map:   No map entry for <user name>

None of the U3 servers has this problem.

We found out that we can work around this by flushing the amd cache using the
"amq -f" command.  However, given the number of servers in the department and
the frequency we make changes to our accounts, this workaround is very painful.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-42.EL
and kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new user account.
2. Verify the new account information is propagates to the RHEL 4 U4 compute
server using "ypmatch amd.home <user name>"
3. cd ~<user name>
  
Actual results:

Directory not found.  In /var/log/amd.log: "Aug 28 11:28:09 tiger amd[2860]/map:
  No map entry for <user name>"

We've waited for days.  amd never re-loaded the new maps.

Expected results:

amd would re-laod the new maps.  cd to the home directory of the new account
should cause amd to auto-mount the directory.  

This works perfectly on all of our RHEL 4 U3 servers.

Additional info: