autofs5 needs to start before lightdm

Bug #830377 reported by Mark Hannon
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
autofs5 (Ubuntu)
In Progress
Medium
Abhishek kumar singh
lightdm (Ubuntu)
In Progress
Medium
Abhishek kumar singh

Bug Description

I use autofs to mount my $HOME. Since upgrading to oneiric and lightdm I can no longer login as the system hangs trying to mount my $HOME.

I added an 'emit autofs' to /etc/init/autofs.conf and a 'and started autofs' to /etc/init/lightdm to force the ordering and now all works.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: autofs5 5.0.6-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 21 10:42:36 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: autofs5
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-03-13 (160 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.init.autofs.conf: 2011-08-21T10:32:48.718150

Revision history for this message
Mark Hannon (markhannon) wrote :
Dave Walker (davewalker)
Changed in autofs5 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Mark Hannon (markhannon) wrote :

This seems to be also related to kernel version.

Booting with a 2.6.38 kernel I can remove the changes to the lightdm.conf file and autofs works fine.

As another data point, with a linux kernel >3.0 on a Debian wheezy machine and a similar autofs setup I get a similar problem with autofs failing.

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in autofs5 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Abhishek kumar singh (abhishekkumarsingh-cse)
status: New → In Progress
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Abhishek kumar singh (abhishekkumarsingh-cse)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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