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
