CentOS - Mar 2011 - debugging auto mount configuration

Hello there,

I successfully use automount to mount a large XFS pargtition on one
CentOS 5.5 machine. I then tried to do the same thing on a different
machine - and it simply would not work! The configuration is done in
the same fashion, I checked and double-checked the syntax - but it is
still a no go. When I use the mount command the partition mounts
perfectly.

I have tried running

automount --debug

and

automount --verbose

and thus far have not seen any messages that would shed any light on
what's going on.

So I am a bit lost at the moment. Any advice on how to proceed would
be much appreciated.

Boris.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I successfully use automount to mount a large XFS pargtition on one
> CentOS 5.5 machine. I then tried to do the same thing on a different
> machine - and it simply would not work! The configuration is done in
> the same fashion, I checked and double-checked the syntax - but it is
> still a no go. When I use the mount command the partition mounts
> perfectly.
>
> I have tried running
>
> automount --debug
>
> and
>
> automount --verbose
>
> and thus far have not seen any messages that would shed any light on
> what's going on.
>
> So I am a bit lost at the moment. Any advice on how to proceed would
> be much appreciated.
>
> Boris.
Posting your automount tables might help. So would double checking
that you both machines are up-to-date on patches: autofs has undergone
significant improvement in the last year or two.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Boris Epstein
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 8:23
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] debugging auto mount configuration
<SNIP>
> I have tried running
> 
> automount --debug
> and
> automount --verbose
> 
> and thus far have not seen any messages that would shed any light on
> what's going on.
> 
> So I am a bit lost at the moment. Any advice on how to proceed would
> be much appreciated.
> 
> Boris.
It looks like you have started down this road, but jmoyer 
(IIRC one of the guys Red Hat has working on autofs) 
has a page of things that he wants to see when trying to debug your
autofs problems.
Perhaps taking a look here might help.
http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer/