KDE vs autofs: Against which package should I file a bug report ?
Hi,
I've installed Wheezy recently over Squeeze on several machines.
Since then I've noticed an issue with the automounter not unmounting
volumes after 300 s of inactivity. This was not an issue under Squeeze.
This seems to affect automounts of local (LVM) volumes, not, AFAIK,
remote (NFS) mounts.
The volumes certainly are not active as sudo kill -USR1 $(cat
/var/run/autofs.pid) causes the automounter to unmount them all.
This seems to affect some machines and not others and this is the clue.
The problem occurs on machines with a KDE desktop: not on machines with
an XFCE desktop.
The problem only occurs if someone is logged in to a KDE desktop: log
out and the automounter will eventually unmount local volumes.
You don't have to do anything under KDE to get this to happen: ssh in
from another machine, do a df on a local volume and, voilà, it will stay
mounted indefinitely.
My hypothesis is that the automounter is working as it should but
something somewhere in KDE space is polling the volumes, which resets
the automounter’s timeouts.
I don't see this as correct behaviour. So against which of the 50 odd
KDE packages installed should I file a bug report ?
Regards,
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Paul Bryan Roberts
pbronline-debian@yahoo.co.uk
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