Description of problem: I just added a couple of lines to my /etc/fstab file in order to let me manually mount CD's without having to switch to root: /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom1 autofs noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom2 autofs noauto,user,ro 0 0 The trouble is that when I try to "mount /mnt/cdrom1" (using a FC6 SRPM CD), the computer locks up. I can ping it from another machine, but there is no response from the console, and I can't ssh in. The first time this happened I didn't see anything in the system log to indicate what the problem was. The second time I found the following message: ov 18 19:53:00 hydra kernel: autofs: called with bogus options Nov 18 19:53:00 hydra kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000070 RIP: Nov 18 19:53:00 hydra kernel: [<ffffffff88626793>] :autofs4:autofs4_kill_sb+0x40/0xfd Nov 18 19:53:00 hydra kernel: PGD 6fad9067 PUD 6e487067 PMD 0 Nov 18 19:53:00 hydra kernel: Oops: 0000 [1] SMP First, I don't understand what autofs is complaining about. I double-checked the mount(8) man page, and noauto, user, and ro are all valid options. Second, even if I did have bad options in /etc/fstab I don't think that should cause a kernel crash! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.17-1.2798.fc6.x86_64 How reproducible: Three crashes out of three attempts. Previously I had been letting nautilus auto-mount the drives, and most of the time it worked fine, though sometimes it simply did nothing. In the latter case I'd have to mount the drive manually, as root, using "mount -o ro /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom1", and that worked too. I can still manually mount the disc as root. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a line to /etc/fstab to mount a CD with the "noauto,user,ro" options and "autofs" file system. 2. Switch to normal user mode. 3. mount /mnt/cdrom Actual results: Oops: 0000 [1] SMP Expected results: Should have mounted the disc. Additional info: autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.10
Sorry, I just noticed that kernel version was a typo. It should say: 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.x86_64
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A few weeks after filing this bug I had upgraded the kernel to 2.6.18-1.2850. Last September I upgraded to 2.6.22.5-49.fc6. I don't recall seeing any more Oopses in all that time.