Bug 104253

Summary:	Autofs map updates do not get recognized resulting in stale mounts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Darren Miller <darren.miller>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Stefaan De Roeck (RETIRED) <stefaan>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	major	CC:	net-fs, robbat2
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Darren Miller 2005-08-30 05:28:27 UTC

race between mounting a share and updating the cache in the parent
process. If the mount completed first, the parent would not expire the
stale entry, leaving it first on the list. This causes map updates to not
be recognized (well, worse, they are recognized after the first expire, but
not subsequent ones). 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.for an existing mount, change the autofs map and push to all NIS slaves
2.on a system whereby the old map existed, check the mount with ypcat
3.cd into the directory you changed and record if the mounted location is the 
correct one, or would have been stale had you actually moved it. 




Details section references a RedHat bug log which has the same symptoms.  I am 
seeing this bug on my Gentoo systems but the redhat servers have been fixed 
with a newer revision.

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-31 10:27:41 UTC

Please use "New -> Gentoo Linux -> Component: Ebuilds" in future. Infrastructure
is not the correct addressee.

Comment 2 Stefaan De Roeck (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-03 11:39:41 UTC

New maintainer, net-fs/autofs-5.0.3-r1 is now in the tree.

Comment 3 Stefaan De Roeck (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-03 12:14:08 UTC

This is ancient.  What's the status on this?

Comment 4 Stefaan De Roeck (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-25 11:55:00 UTC

No feedback in well over a month, closing bug.