the problem I have is that the existing but non-accessible directory breaks some applications (like here quilt). Quilt walks back up from pwd looking for a patches dir. I expect autofs created one in /suse as a side-effect of a previous quilt invocation (see above). On the next run of quilt, it finds this directory which according to
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658734 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658734#c1 --- Comment #1 from Tony Jones <tonyj@novell.com> 2010-12-10 10:59:25 UTC --- the permissions is readable to the process but it fails, causing a message about the directory being created by an old version of quilt to be emitted and to run quilt upgrade. I think I can come up with a workaround for quilt, i'll have to look at whether quilt itself could be smarter but there does seem to be some autofs weirdness. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.