[Bug 40189] Re: autofs needs to be restarted to pick up some shares

[Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca]

Hello Canonical guys,

I have this problem specially for new and fast machines. Boot is just
too fast. If autofs uses network shares (nis, nis+, ldap), it only can
start autofs after the network is up (upstart bug?). Another solution is
to start immediatelly (for static entries) and, after network is up,
reload the configuration. If the reload script does not hurt other
cases, please add it to autofs5-ldap package.

This bug hurts enterprise clients. Other distribution just works with
autofs/ldap. Ubuntu should even have a gui in order to easily configure
autofs/ldap.

I also noticed a very similar problem with samba. As it got up before
network, it does not find the DC and it avoids to auth users until it is
restarted. This is very anoying, specially for a cups print server.

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Title:
  autofs needs to be restarted to pick up some shares

Status in “autofs” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am using autofs to access shares on a Windows XP machine from a
  Kubuntu AMD64 machine.  The problems applies in both Breezy and
  Dapper.

  EDIT:  confirmed with similar configuration on Intrepid with a NetApp
  filer hosting NFS.  Server OS removed from summary.

  When I first try to access the mount point via cd or in Konqueror it
  does not exist.  However,  if I then restart autofs
  (/etc/init.d/autofs restart) everythin then works OK.  My config files
  are:

  auto.master

  #
  # $Id: auto.master,v 1.3 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $
  #
  # Sample auto.master file
  # This is an automounter map and it has the following format
  # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
  # For details of the format look at autofs(5).
  #/misc	/etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
  #/misc	/etc/auto.misc
  #/net	/etc/auto.net

  /petunia /etc/petunia.misc --timeout=60

  
  petunia.misc

  #
  # $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $
  #
  # This is an automounter map and it has the following format
  # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
  # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage

  cd              -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom

  tony	-fstype=smbfs,defaults,password=xxx,fmask=777,dmask=777	://192.168.1.2/tony
  chris	-fstype=smbfs,defaults,password=xxx,fmask=777,dmask=777	://192.168.1.2/chris
  shared	-fstype=smbfs,defaults,password=xxx,fmask=777,dmask=777	://192.168.1.2/SharedDocs
  linuxbackups	-fstype=smbfs,defaults,password=xxx,fmask=777,dmask=777	://192.168.1.2/linuxbackups

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