From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux) Description of problem: I've been setup autofs program man as following: $ cat /etc/auto.master /mnt/net program:/etc/auto.net $ cat /etc/auto.net #!/usr/bin/perl ($hostname,$share_name) = split(/\./, $ARGV[0], 2); print "-fstype=smbfs,credentials=/etc/auto.smbpass\t://$hostname/$share_name"; $ sudo /etc/init.d/autofs restart Stopping automount: [ OK ] Starting automount: [ OK ] $ ls /mnt/net/hlt.distr ..... All works well..... But after I reboot my computer, the following bug appears. $ ls /mnt/net/hlt.distr ls: /mnt/net/hlt.distr: No such file or directory $ sudo cat /var/log/messages | tail -4 Apr 11 12:10:23 kiev145 automount[2062]: attempting to mount entry /mnt/net/hlt. distr Apr 11 12:10:24 kiev145 automount[2420]: >> SMB connection failed Apr 11 12:10:24 kiev145 automount[2420]: >> 2423: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) Apr 11 12:10:24 kiev145 automount[2420]: mount(generic): failed to mount //hlt/d istr (type smbfs) on /mnt/net/hlt.distr But after I restart autofs all works well again. Why ????? NOTE: Whis UNIX samba servers all works well always. The second bug is thet sometimes 'ls' freezing while trying to mount autofs, but after Ctrl+C and starting 'ls' again all works well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): autofs-3.1.7-36 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Described in description Additional info:
I can confirm the second bug. The automounter regularly freezes while mounting smb shares. After pressing ctrl-c the share is mounted anyway. Sometimes I get the following warning in the system log: kernel: autofs warning: lookup failure on positive dentry, status = -4, name = misc The very same configuration worked on RHL 8.0 without problems.
After replacing the kernel with vanilla 2.4.20 the problem disappeared. But Red Hat kernels 2.4.20-8 and 2.4.20-9 are both affected.
Created attachment 91533 [details] testcase of automount smbfs freezing This is a testcase of this automount freezing bug. "#" precedes commands executed as root "$" precedes commands executed as user "<>" surrounds comments output from commands is abbreviated
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