Using autofs-5.0.4-31.i586.rpm (in response to bug #505381). Unlike previous fedora versions where the network start was done directly by an init script, it's now handled by NetworkManager. During boot, NetworkManager starts just before autofs. However, NetworkManager is a daemon, its init script exits quickly, then the daemon takes its own sweet time bringing up eth0. Then: autofs starts; tries to get a map over the non-existent network from ldap and fails; resulting in no automount maps (which in my case means no home directories for users). It does not retry later, although a manual daemon restart works. Ugly workaround - I inserted a "sleep 15" in the autofs init script to allow the network to catch up. However, I see that the autofs script lists a network dependency, as it should. So, how is this dependency enforced? Should the autofs script be testing something to ensure there really is a network connection? Or should NetworkManager be made to wait till it actually has a network before exiting its init script? (in which case this bug should belong to it not autofs). This problem effects any other service which is expecting a network, although most recover on their own.
The way I handle this, and perhaps an acceptable general solution, is the following script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d: #!/bin/bash if [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then LOGGER="/usr/bin/logger -s -p user.notice -t NetworkManagerDispatcher" else LOGGER=echo fi if [ -n "$1" ]; then if /sbin/service autofs status >& /dev/null then $LOGGER "performing autofs reload" /sbin/service autofs reload fi fi
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