I'm working on replacing my Ubuntu 8.04 desktops with Ubuntu 10.04, but I've hit a snag. Automount hangs on glusterfs (tried 3.0.4 and 3.0.5) in the same manner as described on the RedHat Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603378 So, it's apparently a problem in Fedora, too. It also looks like Phil Packer reported the same issue in February and perhaps the same issue was also reported by Christopher Nelson in May. mount -t glusterfs ... works just fine by hand, but when autofs calls it, the result is 5 lingering processes: the mount command, the mount.glusterfs command that it called, a glusterfs command, a zombie glusterfs, and then another glusterfs. It seems clear that autofs only called the mount command once, and mount.glusterfs seesmt o have only called glusterfs once, but glusterfs somehow failed and respawned a couple of times... Is there a fix or workaround (other than to not use autofs)? Ubuntu 8.04 doesn't seem to have this issue, although I have had some machines hang up eventually (with heavy computing/network use), and the symptoms seem to match a hung-up autofs, so it's possible a similar issue is present but much more subtle... Thanks, Brent Nelson Director of Computing Dept. of Physics University of Florida
I'm working on replacing my Ubuntu 8.04 desktops with Ubuntu 10.04, but I've hit a snag. Automount hangs on glusterfs (tried 3.0.4 and 3.0.5) in the same manner as described on the RedHat Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603378 So, it's apparently a problem in Fedora, too. It also looks like Phil Packer reported the same issue in February and perhaps the same issue was also reported by Christopher Nelson in May. mount -t glusterfs ... works just fine by hand, but when autofs calls it, the result is 5 lingering processes: the mount command, the mount.glusterfs command that it called, a glusterfs command, a zombie glusterfs, and then another glusterfs. It seems clear that autofs only called the mount command once, and mount.glusterfs seesmt o have only called glusterfs once, but glusterfs somehow failed and respawned a couple of times... Is there a fix or workaround (other than to not use autofs)? Ubuntu 8.04 doesn't seem to have this issue, although I have had some machines hang up eventually (with heavy computing/network use), and the symptoms seem to match a hung-up autofs, so it's possible a similar issue is present but much more subtle... Thanks, Brent Nelson Director of Computing Dept. of Physics University of Florida