Bug 668342

Summary:	rcautofs cannot create /mounts directory and thus automounting fails
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4	Reporter:	Thomas Renninger <trenn>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Leonardo Chiquitto <lchiquitto>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	forgotten_sLJ7K2dvxj, lchiquitto, rw
Version:	Milestone 5 of 6
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Thomas Renninger 2011-01-31 14:53:05 UTC

On a plain 11.4 installation, if autofs is already running do:
rcautofs stop
rmdir /mounts
rcautofs start
-> autofs won't work

mkdir /mounts
rcautofs restart
-> works

On the first try (which fails) syslog shows:
automount[12214]: do_mount_autofs_indirect: failed to create autofs directory /mounts
automount[12214]: handle_mounts: mount of /mounts failed!
automount[12214]: master_do_mount: failed to startup mount
automount[12214]: do_mount_autofs_indirect: failed to create autofs directory /secret
automount[12214]: handle_mounts: mount of /secret failed!
automount[12214]: master_do_mount: failed to startup mount

Comment 1 Leonardo Chiquitto 2011-02-02 15:52:03 UTC

Isn't this the "root file system missing in /etc/mtab" problem? Could you please attach it here?

Comment 2 Leonardo Chiquitto 2011-02-02 15:58:56 UTC

Complementing the previous comment, this can be related to bug #666458 or bug #665494.

Comment 3 Thomas Renninger 2011-02-02 16:08:13 UTC

Yes, thanks!
adding the rootfs to /etc/mtab makes auto mounter happy.
->duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 666458 ***