Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 90330
System hangs in autofs, but without any NFS errors
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; FreeBSD i386; U;) Gecko/0 Description of problem: We have a number of systems that automount user home directories and a few other filesystems with the following options: rw,nosuid,tcp,intr,nfsvers=2 With some frequency these systems become useless, in a way that suggests the automounter is at fault. `df' hangs, and nobody (including root!) can login via ssh. The only way we can get in is root login on the console, and that one login session is extremely fragile, because many commands that root might wish to run to investigate the problem will hang his session. The best lead we have is the stack trace for every process on the system, obtained through the SysRq feature. I'll append this. One might suspect that this is at root an NFS problem -- e.g. some NFS server has gone away. There are two difficulties with this hypothesis: first, we have only four NFS servers, and we know that none of them are having problems. (They were not to our knowledge down at the onset of the problem, and in any case were definitely up by the time we started investigating.) And second, the consoles of machines that suffer from the problem, which we log, did not record any NFS errors. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: We've got NFS and autofs activity going on all day. We just have to wait for it to happen. Additional info:
Created attachment 91527 [details] Stack trace of a system having this problem
Hi, Just wanted to add that I'm having a similar (maybe the same?) problem. except I'm running Redhat 9 on the client that's having a problem. For me, I can login so long as I hit ^C. So far, the problem has always occurred on the same automount point -- /home/mail, which happens to be the only map entry that contains mount options, the entry looks like: mail -rw,soft,bg mail:/var/spool/mail If I run strace agains the child automount daemon, all I get is "read(4,". I can mount the partition without any problems: # mount -o rw,soft,bg mail:/var/spool/mail /mnt # umount /mnt I'm going to wait until it locks up one more time, then I'm going to try removing the mount options to see if that makes a difference. ...dave alden
Hi, Quick followup -- I changed the mount options in the auto.home file to just rw,soft (I took out bg) and it hasn't locked up since. ...dave
Please try with the latest distribution. If you still have problems, be sure to include the kernel version and the version of the autofs user space. Thanks!