By the way, importance = Wishlist ??? This is clearly a regression, ie.
something that used to work as expected, and now doesn't work as
expected anymore. Set the importance as low as you want, but please
don't make it look like a feature request!
Furthermore, the "bug heat" and # of people affect
We tried autofs5.0.5 (natty) and autofs5.0.6 (oneiric), but the problem
persisted (on 32-bit Lucid). Then we tried autofs4.1.4 (karmic) - same
version as mentioned by dezibelz - and the problems went away (still on
32-bit Lucid). But it's obviously not ideal to be running an old
unsupported version