Hi Ian Kent: Fabian reported a bug about failing to mount /net with autofs-5.1.8, but have no problem with previous 5.1.6 I'm not able to reproduce this error (need more info about the settings) So write to the mailinglist to see if you can shed some light on this.. The most verbose error messages like this: Jan 11 13:53:09 khnum automount[3614]: mount_autofs_offset: failed to mount offset trigger at Jan 11 13:56:24 khnum automount[3614]: set_tsd_user_vars: failed to get buffer size for getpwuid_r Jan 11 14:56:52 khnum kernel: autofs4:pid:10191:validate_dev_ioctl: invalid path supplied for cmd(0xc018937e) detail of the bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/831014 -- Yixun Lan (dlan) Gentoo Linux Developer GPG Key ID AABEFD55