From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12smp i686) Description of problem: The remote filesystem is mounted, then timed-out, and then it is never auto-mounted again. The kernel doesn't allow unmounting the direct mountpoint itself, making it impossible to restart Amd without rebooting. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Mount a remote system(I mount an SGI octane running IRIX6.5) via amd 2.cd to a directory on the amd mounted system and leave it untouched for a few minutes. 3.do "df" in a separate shell to find slinux01:/home/pandya:3 >df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 4134900 1843020 2081832 47% / /dev/sda5 9288792 8678012 138876 99% /u /dev/sda7 3194048 1318468 1713328 44% /usr/INA og:/scratch 0 1 0 0% /amd/og/root/scratch og:/scratch2 0 1 0 0% /amd/og/root/scratch2 og:/scratch3 0 1 0 0% /amd/og/root/scratch3 og:/u/wk 0 1 0 0% /amd/og/root/u/wk Actual Results: The amd links hang and report zero size in "df". The directories which were mounted are now inaccessible. Only recourse is to reboot the machine. This often fails because on reboot it complains that it can not shutdown amd due to live links. Expected Results: If I have "cd"'d to a directory via amd, the link should remain active a s long as I am in that directory. Additional info: At the URL http://www.am-utils.org/patches/ there is a patch for some of the LINUX kernels, but the patch must not have been aplied to the redhat distributed kernels. I am submitting this report to make sure that future versions of reshat distributions include this patch.