Hi
I had problems with the stock autofs package from Debian on my
amd64 machine. On bootup, it locked the machine. When I freshly
installed the packaged, I could not change to any automounted
directory. The machine is described on
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/08/msg00102.html
Somebody else at our institute also had problems with the i386
stable distribution on a similar machine with autofs.
At our institute, we normally use RHEL and there, the
automounter works out of the box. Strange, isn't it? ;-) Well,
they are using autofs 3.1.7 while Debian has a version 4
prerelease at least since the current stable. Changelog of
autofs says "Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:33:36 -0500" (almost 3 years).
As autofs does some init script stuff, you cannot just alien the
rpm from RHEL. Therefore, I had to use the source:
- Source package autofs-3.9.99-4.0.0pre10-16 from Debian
- SRPM autofs-3.1.7-42.src.rpm from
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/SRPMS.os/autofs-3.1.7-42.src.rpm
- Mixing both and making sure everything compiles again.
I have added the following changelog to the Debian package:
autofs (3.1.7-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Took
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/SRPMS.os/autofs-3.1.7-42.src.rpm
and tried to backport to debian using the debian package
3.9.99-4.0.0pre10-16.
* Corrected 002_mkdir_on_readonly_fs, 006_auto_master_s_b_fhs patch,
007_improved_removable_device_options_in_auto_misc,
008_auto_master_format_is_in_man_5, 009_improved_init_script,
013_install_mandirs_before_install_manfiles.diff,
016_showmount_in_sbin, 018_fsck_ext3, 020_submount_not_unmounted,
039_updated_manpages
* Removed 019_corrections_in_init_script,
021_check_for_executability_of_map,
022_clarify_comment_about_daemon_options,
023_check_for_specific_types_before_files_and_programs,
024_preserve_order_of_mount_options, 025_allow_dashes_in_options,
026_corrections_in_munge_options,
028_exclude_references_to_other_nis_maps,
029_handle_d_options_in_init_script_correctly,
035_fixed_parsing_error_in_mount_nfs_c,
038_rewrite_process_master_file, 040_document_gid_option_in_autofs_5,
041_nonstrict_and_sort_in_auto_net,
043_nsswitch_and_auto.master_in_ldap,
044_handle_ldif_continued_lines_in_init_script
* New patches:
100_configure, 101_Makefile
-- Philipp Frauenfelder <pfrauenf@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:38:14 +0200
If you wonder, why I had to remove so many patches: In case of
the init script and auto.net, I simply incorporated all changes
into one patch as this was much easier. This rendered many
patches obsolete and I could remove them.
This could be further refined, but at least, it works.
I am using the following line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to get the
automounter tables from NIS (it's setup like this at our
institute):
automount: files nis
If you are interested in the preliminary package and the sources
I used:
http://people.debian.org/~pfrauenf/autofs/
Regards
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