Description of problem: On two quite different machines I see that automount is repeatedly dropping in /var/log/messages entries like this one: automount[2037]: open_mount: (mount):cannot open mount module auto (/usr/lib64/autofs/mount_auto.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) AFAICT the reason for that noise is that one or more entries in /etc/fstab has "auto" in a filesystem field; which is allowed and can be even very appropriate. Another possibility is in one of autofs configuration files I have a line: cdrom -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/cdrom which is precisely what is desired there. The above does not seem to affect automount operation at all. At least CDs with an entry like the above are getting automounted with appropriate file system types (I have around iso9660 and hfsplus samples). So it appears that for a "fix" it would be enough to kill a complaint in this particular case. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autofs-5.0.2-10 autofs-5.0.1-0.rc3.33 How reproducible: all the time
I know about this one. I haven't got to fixing it yet. You are correct, it doesn't affect autofs operation. Ian
> I know about this one. > I haven't got to fixing it yet. I got somewhat impatient with that for assorted reasons. It appears that 'ln -s mount_generic.so mount_auto.so' at least hides the problem. Do you know of any reasons why this could be harmful? It seems to be fine when I tried.
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