I was using autofs just fine with a 2.6.14 kernel for automounting my DVD drive, camera, USB enclosure, etc. Then I upgraded my GCC, and did an emerge -e world. I also recompiled the kernel (autofs4 is enabled in it). Now autofs doesn't do anything. It still is in the runlevel, and the service does start (and remains on). But no errors, and it doesn't automount anything. ps ax does not show any related process (automounter or whatever) running after starting the service. Any ideas on how I can go about debugging this? I looked into ivman as an alternative, but hal won't install (2.6.14 kernel is too "old"). I tried with both versions 3.1.7-r5 (the one that always worked) and 4.1.3-r7 (the latest stable one). (Yes, everything does mount manually). emerge info: Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /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/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://194.117.143.72/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ ftp://194.117.143.71/mirrors/gentoo" LINGUAS="en ar" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cairo cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups dbus dga directfb divx4linux dlloader doc dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode esd exif fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg firefox flac fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk guile hal icq imagemagick imap imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg justify kde kernel_linux lcms ldap leim libcaca libg++ linguas_ar linguas_en live mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod mmx mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin oav ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl pgp php plotutils png pnp ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection samba sasl sdl session speex spell spl sse ssl subtitles svg svga tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l vcd vesa video_cards_fbdev video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa videos vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x86 xine xinerama xml xmms xorg xosd xv xvid yahoo zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
New maintainer, net-fs/autofs-5.0.3-r1 is now in the tree.
This sounds like a hard problem to debug :) Anyway: - does the problem still persist (bug is from some time ago) - please provide nsswitch.conf - also provide auto.master (and if relevant, other maps...) - you can of course try net-fs/autofs-5.0.3-r1 as well now Looking forward to your info
No feedback in well over a month, closing bug.
