Description of problem: Kernel panic'd overnight, leaving automounts in a hung state. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6 How reproducible: Not at all; this happened randomly in the middle of the night. autofs appeared to be hung afterward, as the system couldn't shut down without a hard reset, and all mounts were hanging. Additional info: We've had occasional freezing with this machine since moving to autofs-mounted home directories. This is the first time we've had a panic reported. I've attached the relevant snippet of /var/log/messages.
Created attachment 149212 [details] Kernel panic output
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The problem appears to have been resolved since moving from Fedora 6 to 8. (We were on 7 only long enough to complete the upgrade to 8, so I can't say whether a change in 7 resolved it. If anyone is curious, the server tracked Fedora releases pretty closely, and so was running 7 and 8 shortly after their release.) Our interim resolution to the problem, which wouldn't be acceptable to most, was a nightly automated reboot of the problematic machine, which headed off the issue most of the time. Since moving to 8, we've found it unnecessary to do so.