Re: race in autofs / nfs

From: Olaf Hering (olh@suse.de)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 10:58:31 EST


On Mon, Feb 12, Olaf Hering wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 12, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Olaf Hering wrote:
> > >
> > > The autofs4.o is the culprit, it works perfect with autofs.o.
> > >
> > > What would happen if I stick with autofs.o now?
> > > The docu recommends autofs4 in modules.conf.
> > >
> >
> > I don't know who came up with that idea. You should use the module that
> > matches your daemon, and not try to hack around so that there is a
> > module/daemon mismatch.
>
> cantaloupe:~ # /usr/sbin/automount -v
> Linux automount version 4.0.0
>
>
> We had 4.0pre7 in 7.0 and 4.0pre9 in 7.1.
> I would really like to know _where_ it hangs, Trond sent me a printk
> patch but this one was not called.

Any ideas where to start with the debugging?

> I will try to get a i386 SMP machine to see if its ppc specific.

I'm unable to reproduce it on a Piii 750 with SuSE 7.1.

guillory:/usr/src/OLAF/linux-2.4.2-pre3 # sh scripts/ver_linux
-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or look
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Linux guillory 2.4.2-pre3-SMP #3 SMP Tue Feb 13 14:50:47 CET 2001 i686
unknown
Kernel modules 2.4.1
Gnu C 2.95.2
Gnu Make 3.79.1
Binutils 2.10.0.33
Linux C Library x 1 root root 1382179 Jan 19 07:14
/lib/libc.so.6
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.2
Procps 2.0.7
Mount 2.10q
Net-tools 1.57
Kbd 1.02
Sh-utils 2.0
Modules Loaded nfsd ipv6 mousedev hid input usbcore eepro100

both 2.4.1ac10 and 2.4.2-pre3 boot fine.

This machine oops in the usb stack, but thats another issue.

Gruss Olaf

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