I can confirm this on a recently installed edgy. /home was mounted nfs/autofs async and didn't have a problem. /var/mail was mounted nfs/autofs sync, and opening more than one mutt, or waiting for the timeout, or something made the processes (a couple of mutts and a cat /var/mail/me) accessing /var/mail freeze. Even going to runlevel 1, I still couldn't kill them!
Now I changed the file in the hal source 00upstream-05-fix-stale_nfs_handle_block.patch (in debian/patches) which already handled the nfs part of the patch. I added the autofs part. And rebuilt and installed the new hal. As far as I can tell it is solved now. I've opened several mutts, and made different changes to the inbox in different instances, and they are not complaining, but updating correctly. -- HAL stats nfs and autofs mounts, preventing autofs timeouts from working https://launchpad.net/bugs/55223 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
