autofs init script just sends the wrong flags to automount resulting in errors like this: /home/usr/bin/automount: option -t requires a numeric argument, got, intr, nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 If you uncomment the echo lines commented on the script (which is attached), you'll get something like this: Wed Feb 1 09:08:49 WET 2006 STARTUPOPTIONS --timeout ,intr,nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 DIR /home MAPTYPE yp MAP auto.home MAPOPTIONS -rw,soft,intr,nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 LOCALOPTIONS OPTIONS -t 60 -rw,soft,intr,nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 GETOPT_INPUT --timeout 60 -t 60 -rw,soft,intr,nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 I don't thing the STARTUPOPTIONS flag is ok. Should be checked. Think this is all. I'll attach script! Emerge Info: Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1, 2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X Xaw3d aalib ada alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo boundschecking bzip2 cdrom clearcase crypt cscope cups curl doc eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode escreen esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm geoip gif gimp gimpprint glut gmp gnome gnome-print gnomecanvas gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile haskell hbci idn imagemagick imlib imlib2 innodb java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal koffice-plugin latex lcms leim lesstif libg++ libgda libwww mad mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg multislot mysql ncurses nis nls nptl offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pascal pcre pdflib perforce perl php plotutils png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline recode ruby samba sdl spell sql sqlite sqlite3 sse ssl subtitles subversion svg svga svgz tcltk tcpd tetex tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 78628 [details] Autofs script with echo uncommented
What does your /etc/conf.d/autofs look like? If you update to the latest, net-fs/autofs-4.1.3-r7, do you experience the same bug?
New maintainer, net-fs/autofs-5.0.3-r1 is now in the tree.
please provide feedback on comment #2 (or test with a yet newer version)