Re: 2.4.20 autofs: non-toplevel mounts broken?

From: Greg Folkert (greg_at_gregfolkert.net)
Date: 07/30/03

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    On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:18, Bob Proulx wrote:
    <snip>
    > Something really strange to my thinking is that the automount daemon
    > from autofs did not change. Only the kernel was updated. The autofs
    > side should not have changed. But since it is now not working I can
    > only assume this is an interaction with the kernel which is causing
    > this problem.
    >
    > Any clues?

    Yep.

    Oh... you want to know... OK :)

    Modules not being loaded is typically the problem. That or the
    rpc/portmap/...blah not compiled in.

    So load them ... in /etc/modules 

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