Comment 2 for bug 190737

I'm doing some debugging.. The above setup is sufficient however it is dependant on the NIS setup we have here inside Sun. That is really comprehensive, spanning across all of Sun's systems and offices, and we have many NFS mounted file systems that are described in NIS maps. It would be difficult to give much about the setup ...

The key thing I found this morning is /var/log/syslog was getting spewed with messages like in the picture.

A behavior I did not mention is that as soon as I cause an automount (e.g. "ls /net/sqe1") the file browser (nautilus) pops up multiple file browser windows, one for each exported directory.

Later on it gets other messages saying '>> mount.nfs: mumble:/export/jestest failed, reason given by server: Permission denied' There are a lot of those messages with different mount points, each time saying 'Permission denied'.

I eventually managed to recover the system by 'killall nautilus' ... an earlier 'killall automount' did not do it, only when I killed nautilus did the system recover its load average to normal.