Ubuntu
autofs5 package

autofs5 configuration files in wrong location

Bug #625953 reported by Kavli
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autofs5 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: autofs5

upon upgrading autofs5, to version 5.0.4-3.1ubuntu5.1, the system complained about non existing directories in
/usr/share/autofs5/conffiles.

Since /usr/share is a good candidate for automounting, and is indeed automounted and shared between all virtual hosts in my configuration, this is indeed a very bad idea and creates a deadlock! (Just taste the word _shared_)

We have a specific directory since the very old days that is always host specific, which is /etc. This is where host specific configuration files should be located.

 -- K

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Is this an upgrade to lucid?

chuck

Changed in autofs5 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
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Kavli (ronny-kavli) wrote :

No. This was during a maintenance update of a running Lucid (10.04) system. autofs5 had been running on the affected machines for months. The previous version of autofs was 5.0.4-3.1ubuntu5. (Without the .1 at the end)

There were no magic done prior to the update. Just a normal, apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade, to get the latest kernel update.

Then the shit hit the fan when it came to autofs, complaining that /usr/share/autofs5/conffiles did not exist. The update then bailed out prematurely, and I had to do a dpkg --configure -a to be able to continue. I then had to create the before mentioned directory structure by hand and populate them with auto.master and default.autofs5, which I copied from /etc/default/autofs.

I did this on three different systems, just to verify the behavior. Two virtual hosts and one stand-alone system.

Currently autofs works, since default.autofs5 and /etc/default/autofs both point to the auto.master in /etc, so it's not critical.

 -- K

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Thanks for providing the information.

chuck

Changed in autofs5 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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