martin>> Ian Kent suggests disabling the autofs locking, providing that martin>> mount locks mtab properly. Does Debian's mount do that?
steinar> strace seems to indicate that it does: Cool. I have *no* idea what I'm doing here but... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-get source autofs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ cd autofs-4.1.4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/autofs-4.1.4$ wget -O debian/patches/080_configurable_locking http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v4/autofs-4.1.4-configure able-locking.patch ... and applying this patch... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ diff -u clean/autofs-4.1.4/debian/rules autofs-4.1.4/debian/ --- clean/autofs-4.1.4/debian/rules 2006-06-29 14:40:28.000000000 -0700 +++ autofs-4.1.4/debian/rules 2006-06-29 14:29:17.000000000 -0700 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dh_testdir (cd $(BUILD_DIR) && \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man \ - --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) ) + --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --disable-mount-locking) touch $@ source.make: $(STAMP_DIR)/source.make [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ... gave me something I could sudo dpkg-buildpackage; sudo dpkg -i ../autofs_4.1.4-10_i386.deb and which then solved my problem. ------------------------------------- Martin's Outlook, BlueArc Engineering
