Ubuntu
autofs package

  1. Bug #40189
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 40189

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fejes (anthony-fejes) wrote : Re: autofs needs to be restarted to pick up some shares

I am experiencing what I think is the same problem in 10.04. It wasn't a problem in any of the versions prior to this on the one machine, but an upgrade recently caused this to affect ~50% of cold boots.

It's not difficult to solve - once the failed login happens (home is not mapped), I go to one of the terminals (crtl-alt-F1), and issue:

sudo /etc/init.d/autofs reload

After this, I can switch back to the KDE/Gnome prompt and login through the graphical prompt, which is now crtl-alt-F8.