[Bug 570513] Re: NIS-based autofs maps don't load on startup

2010-08-11 Thread Dern
Reloading autofs in /etc/rc.local doesn't work for me as my /usr/local is also automounted and seems to be busy at that time which makes autofs restart freeze. @Lars Kellogg-Stedman: thanks, that does seem to work for me although I wonder what the side effects might be. If I understand this correc

[Bug 607039] Re: NFS automount failover doesn't work

2011-02-18 Thread Dern
I'm having the same issue using autofs 5.0.4-3.1ubuntu5.1 on lucid. When using NFS3 specifying replicated servers does work, when using NFS4 it doesn't. If I run automount manually with verbose and debugging enabled I see the following output when trying to access /usr/local: #

[Bug 607039] Re: NFS automount failover doesn't work

2011-02-18 Thread Dern
I just verified the problem still exists on Maverick running autofs5 5.0.5-0ubuntu2. Same scenario: if I list only 1 server the automount works fine, if I add a second server the mount fails completely without leaving any logs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 607039] Re: NFS automount failover doesn't work

2011-02-22 Thread Dern
The problem does not appear on Fedora using autofs 5.0.5 so it looks like this is an Ubuntu specific bug. Please note that the description for this bug report is misleading as autofs doesn't do failover (as far as I know). However it is supposed to be able to automaticaly choose an available serv

[Bug 607039] Re: NFS automount using replicated servers doesn't work

2011-02-22 Thread Dern
I changed the title of this bug report from NFS automount failover doesn't work to NFS automount using replicated servers doesn't work as I believe it better reflects the problem and saying 'failover' in combination with may put of the maintainers as autofs isn't supposed to do real faillov