Description of Problem:

'amd' daemon seems to be quite broken in RC2.

The same machine, with the same configuration, can be booted either
into RH 7.1 based system or into a test installation of RC2.  Network
works and an explicit mount via NFS from another host 'zeno' works
fine in both cases. 'amd' is running and 'mount' shows its presence
in both cases.

This is a fragment of 'strace' which shows effects of 'ls /net/zeno'
from 7.1:

....
lstat64("/net/zeno", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=21, ...}) = 0
readlink("/net/zeno", "/.automount/zeno/root", 4096) = 21
stat64("/.automount/zeno/root", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...})
= 0
open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a
directory)
open("/.automount/zeno/root", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY)
= 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)   = 0
getdents64(3, /* 31 entries */, 4096) = 816
brk(0x8059000)                    = 0x8059000
getdents64(3, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0
close(3)                          = 0
.....

and so on, followed for a listing of a directory on my screen.

These are effects of the same command when RC2 is used:

.....
lstat64("/net/zeno", 0x8055c7c)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
.....

and an error message is printed.

Unfortunately 'autofs' is still not a suitable replacement for 'amd';
at least not in all situations.

   Michal
   michal