CentOS - Aug 2015 - Update from 6.6 to 6.7 > automount logs error message

Hello,

after an update from 6.6 to 6.7 the following error message is logged to
/var/log/messages when I login (per ssh):

Aug 11 16:31:21 a1234 automount[1598]: set_tsd_user_vars: failed to get passwd
info from getpwuid_r

Checked all log-files of my systems running 6.6 with same configuration -- never
got such a message (We use NFS/autofs for home-directories, NIS and tcsh (login
shell)).

Everything seems to work -- but before I update all machines to 6.7 I want to
know whats going on.

Any comments?

Best regards,
Ralf

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Ralf Aum?ller <
Ralf.Aumueller at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after an update from 6.6 to 6.7 the following error message is logged to
> /var/log/messages when I login (per ssh):
>
> Aug 11 16:31:21 a1234 automount[1598]: set_tsd_user_vars: failed to get
> passwd
> info from getpwuid_r
>
> Checked all log-files of my systems running 6.6 with same configuration --
> never
> got such a message (We use NFS/autofs for home-directories, NIS and tcsh
> (login
> shell)).
>
> Everything seems to work -- but before I update all machines to 6.7 I want
> to
> know whats going on.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Best regards,
> Ralf
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>

I am seeing the same issue.

Any ideas anyone?


-- 
Matt Phelps
System Administrator, Computation Facility
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at
cfa.harvard.edu>
wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Ralf Aum?ller <
> Ralf.Aumueller at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> after an update from 6.6 to 6.7 the following error message is logged
to
>> /var/log/messages when I login (per ssh):
>>
>> Aug 11 16:31:21 a1234 automount[1598]: set_tsd_user_vars: failed to get
>> passwd
>> info from getpwuid_r
>>
>> Checked all log-files of my systems running 6.6 with same configuration
>> -- never
>> got such a message (We use NFS/autofs for home-directories, NIS and
tcsh
>> (login
>> shell)).
>>
>> Everything seems to work -- but before I update all machines to 6.7 I
>> want to
>> know whats going on.
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Ralf
>> _______________________________________________
>> CentOS mailing list
>> CentOS at centos.org
>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>>
>
>
> I am seeing the same issue.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
>
>
To answer the original question, RedHat Engineering is looking into it.
>From https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1573693 (subscription required):


"Issue

After an update to RHEL6.7 the following error shows up in logfile
/var/log/messages:

automount[60432]: set_tsd_user_vars: failed to get passwd info from
getpwuid_r


Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7


Resolution

The issue is currently under investigation by Red Hat Engineering. In case
you encounter the problem in your environment, please open a ticket with
Red Hat Global Support."






-- 
Matt Phelps
System Administrator, Computation Facility
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu

Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at ...> writes:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Ralf Aum?ller <
> Ralf.Aumueller <at> informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > after an update from 6.6 to 6.7 the following error message is logged
to
> > /var/log/messages when I login (per ssh):
> >
> > Aug 11 16:31:21 a1234 automount[1598]: set_tsd_user_vars: failed to
get
> > passwd
> > info from getpwuid_r
> >
> > Checked all log-files of my systems running 6.6 with same
configuration --
> > never
> > got such a message (We use NFS/autofs for home-directories, NIS and
tcsh
> > (login
> > shell)).
> >
> > Everything seems to work -- but before I update all machines to 6.7 I
want
> > to
> > know whats going on.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ralf
> > _______________________________________________
> > CentOS mailing list
> > CentOS <at> centos.org
> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
> >
> 
> I am seeing the same issue.
> 
> Any ideas anyone?
> 
Matthew and Ralf, we were also seeing this.  We do variable substitution for
some of our mounts (mount server:/export/$OSNAME-$OSREL-$CPU/ on the local
machine).  In our case, server:/export/$OSNAME-$OSREL-$CPU didn't exist. 
Once we created it and the mount succeeded, the set_tsd_user_vars errors
went away.  (At least they have for the past 30 minutes, when we had been
seeing them usually every minute or two and no more than every 10 minutes.)
 YMMV.

     Michael Sanderson
     Manager, Computing Facilities
     UBC Computer Science