From: Jim Seymour (jseymour@linxnet.com)
Date: Tue Sep 20 2005 - 09:12:20 EDT
Hi All,
Two mornings lately I've arrived to find our Sun E250 running Solaris 8
all but totally "seized up." (This morning even *I* couldn't log in,
and had to nerve-pinch it.) At first it seemed to be behaving like a
NIS+ problem, but, on further examination, I suspect the problem to lie
with the automounter. Each time, this
...autofs: [ID 593912 kern.notice] automountd not running, retrying
was the last thing in /var/adm/messages, prior to rebooting the
system. (This was in /var/adm/messages at 05:22. Tripwire runs at
05:21.)
Searching the web and SunSolve, the only thing I found that appeared
to be relevant was:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-55340-1
Title: Automountd(1M) May Stop and/or OpenSSH May Experience
Authentication Issues
Patch 108993-33 is installed.
Coincidentally (?), a week ago I built, installed and have been
experimenting with OpenLDAP on this machine--incl. with TLS.
I don't recall whether or not I've left slapd (the OpenLDAP server
daemon) running over-night, either time.
Could it be that whatever mechanisms support FNS are "noticing"
OpenLDAP running (at some point) and that's getting the automounter
all tied up in knots (under load?)?
Anyway, I've commented-out "/xfn -xfn" in /etc/auto_master
and restarted automountd. I also removed the xfn entry from
/etc/nsswitch.conf. We'll see what happens. Or not...
Thanks,
Jim
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