[Bug 1050021] Re: autofs failed to mount .hidden

[Frédéric Nass]

Hi,

I confirm this bug. I'ts a real pain. Even more when using executable
maps as we do, because autofs blindly obeys to mounting a share that
doesn't exist on the server side (shouldn't autofs know it ?).

Here's our executable /etc/auto.nfs map :

#!/bin/bash
user_group=$(id -n -g $1)
echo "-fstype=nfs4,rw,sec=krb5  server:/home/NFS/$user_group/$1"

It works fine when the map is called with username when mounting its
home directory. But sometimes, it's Kate (text editor) that's trying to
access /home/.kateprojekt or /home/.kateconfig files instead of
/home/user1/.kateprojekt and /home/user1/.kateconfig and then it fails.
It's worse than that : it freezes the text editor and even the whole KDE
desktop.

That's what autofs is triyng to mount in this particular situation :
/home/NFS//.kateprojekt on /home/

Tried this with Ubuntu 13.04 server and client and Fedora 19 too and
same errors  happens. On Fedora 19 I even get error about /home/.Trash
and /home/.Trash-xxxxx and /home/.hidden etc....

I'm now on production with all my students and teachers beeing impacted
by this bug.

There seems to be 2 problems here :

1. Autofs should better handle mount errors.
2. Kate should record its configuration in the right path : /home/user1/.kateprojekt and not /home/.kateprojekt 

Hope someone pays attention to this and fix this really soon. Let me
know if I can help / try your fixing.

Frédéric.

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