r298143: something wrong with autofs?

Edward Tomasz Napiera?a trasz at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 4 18:41:58 UTC 2016


On 0503T1849, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Am Sun, 17 Apr 2016 12:39:44 +0200
> Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at FreeBSD.org> schrieb:
> 
> > On 0417T1057, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > > 
> > > Running FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #32 r298143: Sun Apr 17 09:48:26 CEST 2016  amd64, on
> > > both server and client, reveals today that AUTOFS seems not to work. Did something
> > > changed unnoticed?
> > > 
> > > I realized, that no exported filesystem is bound so far. On the server's side, all  
> > 
> > "Bound"?
> 
> ... means: the cleint does not mount/bind the NFS exported filesystem anymore.

Ok.

> > > daemons necessary are configured as they were before in a working state and as I can
> > > see so far, they are up and running and also listening to their sockets/IPs.   
> > 
> > Could you describe in more detail what are you seeing?  Also, the usual autofs
> > debugging technique ("pkill automountd && while :; do automountd -d; done") might
> > sched some light.
> 
> Well, I see nothing! That is my problem. I setup several NFSv4 exported filesystems which
> were mounted on demand via autofs - that workd. Since I do not use/need those filesystems
> on a dailt basis, I realized too late that in the meanwhile those filesystems are not
> present on the client (autofs) anymore. I'm not aware of having changed anything in the
> configuration and I didn't receive any heads-ups that essential changes had been made.

Hm, it certainly seems weird.  Are the autofs instances mounted where
there should be?  Could you send me your /etc/auto_master, the maps,
and dmesg output?  Thanks!



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