http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376 User syseng@adnovum.ch added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376#c1 --- Comment #1 from Bernd Nies 2009-04-27 03:50:57 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=288297) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=288297) Automounter core file core.3753: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from '/usr/sbin/automount' -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376 User syseng@adnovum.ch added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376#c2 --- Comment #2 from Bernd Nies 2009-04-30 04:54:54 MDT --- Workaround: cat /usr/local/sbin/watchdog #!/bin/bash # # Watchdog # -------- # Workaround for buggy and crashing Linux daemons. # Watch over important daemon processes and keep them running. # watch_procs="/usr/sbin/nscd /usr/sbin/automount" # put loop into background ( while true; do for proc in $watch_procs; do if ! checkproc $proc; then logger -t watchdog "Restarting $proc." start_daemon $proc fi done sleep 60 done ) & -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376 User syseng@adnovum.ch added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376#c4 --- Comment #4 from Bernd Nies 2009-04-30 08:48:23 MDT --- Don't know. We have ca 200 workstations running openSUSE 11.0 and don't want to upgrade every few months to the next minor release. There are always so many changes with every minor release (packaging, autoyast, software versions, etc). Finding all new changes and bugs within a "minor" release and adjusting all Autoyast setup scripts and implementing fixes and testing takes 2-3 weeks work. Bye Bernd -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376 User syseng@adnovum.ch added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376#c6 --- Comment #6 from Bernd Nies 2009-05-05 02:14:11 MDT --- Maybe this hint helps: The victims are running GNOME desktop - I am running KDE and don't have a crashing automounter. Systems are set up identically and have same patch level. Bye Bernd -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376 User syseng@adnovum.ch added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498376#c8 Bernd Nies changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |syseng@adnovum.ch --- Comment #8 from Bernd Nies 2009-08-26 23:54:44 MDT --- Hi, I haven't heared from our complaining users any more. Maybe it's a GNOME problem and most of them switched to KDE or the watchdog approach works fine. On my workstation with all the latest patches and KDE 3.5 desktop the automounter still dies frequently: adnws007:~ # grep watchdog /var/log/messages Aug 18 12:02:04 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 19 15:07:22 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 19 15:11:30 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 19 15:38:02 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 19 15:50:45 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 19 15:57:28 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 24 07:05:16 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 24 08:34:31 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 24 09:10:19 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 24 17:31:22 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/nscd. Aug 24 17:31:23 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 25 07:09:36 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 25 07:55:02 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 25 08:19:59 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. Aug 26 09:45:30 adnws007 watchdog: Restarting /usr/sbin/automount. There is no core file. Isn't there a dumpadm like on Solaris where one can enable this. I remember when I used GNOME on 11.0 for testing and suddenly all folders in my home directory appeared as drive icons on the desktop. Could'nt reproduce it. On GNOME also the .snapshot directory from the Netapp NFS share is always shown on the desktop. Since OpenSUSE 11.0 all automounted NFS shares appear in the Yast partitioner - a place where they don't belong to at all. Maybe automounter is screwed up. I remember that it ran fine on Suse 9.x and could even be restarted without rebooting the workstation. Beginning with Suse 10.x this was no longer possible. Automounter didn't work well after one has restarted it. A reboot was necessary. We don't want to upgrade all our 200+ workstations to openSUSE 11.1 when there is no urgent need because we need a uniform setup for development and stability and the release cycles are too short to keep up with each one. Best regards, Bernd -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.