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From: brian@cimage.com (Brian Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DEC's automounter, amd
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.210904.23691@cimage.com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 21:09:04 GMT
References: <27B32C45.6949@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Reply-To: brian@dgsi.UUCP (Brian Kelley)
Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <27B32C45.6949@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>We're using the automounter that comes with Ultrix 4.1 pretty heavily
>on 12 DECstation 5000s.  Occasionally, the automounter refuses to
>mount a partition, and recently, has been getting a "bus error" and
>the system has to be rebooted to become usable again.  Are other people
>seeing problems like these under Ultrix 4.1?

After having the automounter in 4.1 die for no apparent reason a couple of 
times, I have come to the conclusion that it seems flakey.  We run the same
automount maps and setup on all of our hosts and rarely have problems.

I called DEC.  The software support person I spoke with had me look at the
object modules dates in my version of automount.  All of the modules are
dated 4/21/90 or earlier. The date on the executable is August '90.  The most
recent patched version for 4.0 he had was dated October '90.  There are no
new versions for 4.1.  He is sending us a copy of the patched 4.0 version to
try.  I don't like that idea a whole lot, but it seems the version he is 
sending us is more recent than the one we are running.  I have a core dump
from the automounter I'm going to try and get them to look at.  Any further
thoughts or suggestions (before I throw away vendor supplied automounters 
forever and go with AMD)?


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