Your message dated Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:00:37 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line autofs: no kernel notifications for a "missing" or unmountable mount point (e.g. floppy) has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 23 Sep 2004 16:20:36 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 23 09:20:36 2004 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from open.hands.com [195.224.53.39] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1CAWKi-00062F-00; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:20:36 -0700 Received: from lkcl.net (host81-152-10-162.range81-152.btcentralplus.com [81.152.10.162]) by open.hands.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91188C0FE for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:19:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from lkcl by lkcl.net with local (Exim 4.24) id 1CAWUv-00020F-IT; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:31:09 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: autofs: no kernel notifications for a "missing" or unmountable mount point (e.g. floppy) X-Mailer: reportbug 2.39 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:31:09 +0100 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-hands-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-hands-com-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-MailScanner-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 X-Spam-Level: Package: autofs Version: 3.9.99-4.0.0pre10-16 Severity: normal okay. when a floppy drive is accessed, and there happens not to be a floppy in the drive, you get an error "directory does not exist". then you put a floppy _in_ the drive.... and access it .... and it _still_ says "directory does not exist". 30 seconds _later_ is a different story: access is granted. ... what gives??? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux highfield 2.6.7-selinux1 #7 Wed Sep 8 17:46:33 BST 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages autofs depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii procps 1:3.1.15-2 The /proc file system utilities -- no debconf information --------------------------------------- Received: (at 273053-done) by bugs.debian.org; 8 Dec 2004 22:01:32 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 08 14:01:32 2004 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no [129.241.93.19] (Debian-exim) by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1Cc9sJ-0001F0-00; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:01:32 -0800 Received: from [2001:700:300:dc03:20e:cff:fe36:a766] (helo=trofast.sesse.net) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cc9rk-0006qP-IR; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:01:29 +0100 Received: from sesse by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cc9rR-00011K-00; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 23:00:37 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:00:37 +0100 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: autofs: no kernel notifications for a "missing" or unmountable mount point (e.g. floppy) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.8.1 on a i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 X-Spam-Level: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:17:43PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > i found out what the problem is: the auto-timeout field in the autofs.h > linux kernel header file is set to a ridiculously long time period > of 60 (sixty) seconds. OK, so no autofs bug (a kernel bug if any); closing. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/