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.
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.