[ec2-beta] apt-get install autofs hangs

[Paul Cullum]

BTW.  Has anyone here successfully used autofs to mount attached EBS 
volumes?  It's one approach I'm trying to figure out and I haven't had 
any success yet.  It should be possible and if it turns out to work well 
perhaps we could consider autofs to be part of the base AMI?

Paul Cullum wrote:
> My ec2-run-user-data script does a number of things including 
> installing some packages.  The last package it tries to install is 
> autofs and for whatever reason, this hangs when installed from the 
> script. 
>
> I'm going to take a wild guess here but... what happens to the stdout 
> and stderr of this script and processes called by these scripts?  I 
> know a process will hang when it can't write anymore to stdout and 
> stderr.  That output needs to be consumed.
>
> Or is there something else going on here?  If it is an issue with 
> stdout then perhaps my "apt-get update" is too verbose.  I might try 
> this again with some some stdout redirects to /dev/null.
>
> root      3108  0.0  0.0   1848   568 ?        S    09:30   0:00 
> /bin/sh /etc/rc2.d/S90ec2-init start
> root      3131  0.0  0.2   6512  4136 ?        S    09:30   0:00 
> /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/ec2-run-user-data
> root      3132  0.0  0.0   1768   536 ?        S    09:30   0:00 
> logger -t user-data
> root      3133  0.0  0.0   1848   492 ?        S    09:30   0:00 sh -c 
> /tmp/tmpjNVKT2 | logger -t "user-data"
> root      3134  0.0  0.0   2844  1244 ?        S    09:30   0:00 
> /bin/bash /tmp/tmpjNVKT2
> root      3136  0.0  0.0   1768   536 ?        S    09:30   0:00 
> logger -t user-data
> root      3190  0.0  0.1   8580  3032 ?        Ss   09:30   0:00 sshd: 
> root at pts/0
> root      3194  0.0  0.1  16708  2812 ?        Ssl  09:30   0:00 
> /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
> root      3264  0.0  0.1   4212  1816 pts/0    Ss   09:30   0:00 -bash
> root      3312  0.4  0.9  19312 16420 ?        S    09:31   0:04 
> apt-get install autofs
> root      3467  0.0  0.0   2748  1008 pts/0    R+   09:50   0:00 ps aux
>
> Paul