iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) (02/09/91)
We're using the automounter that comes with Ultrix 4.1 pretty heavily on 12 DECstation 5000s. Occasionally, the automounter refuses to mount a partition, and recently, has been getting a "bus error" and the system has to be rebooted to become usable again. Are other people seeing problems like these under Ultrix 4.1? I've been looking a little bit at amd, the improved automounter available via anonymous ftp from usc.edu. Does it work under Ultrix 4.1? The documentation mentions VAX Ultrix, but not RISC Ultrix. Thanks, Mike Iglesias University of California, Irvine Internet: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu BITNET: iglesias@uci uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
fingerhu@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) (02/09/91)
The DEC automounter caused us weird problems: we were unable to mount directories that were exported from NeXTs and and 750 running 4.3+NFS. It finally turns out that DEC's automounter had to be compiled with a -DOLDMOUNT. Many thanks to our local DEC support who let me glance at the sources, where I found this. Now it works fine. Whatever this is, it means that DEC changed the protocol (as they did for talk) without mentioning it anywhere accessible to mortal users without sources, and that in order to be compatible with the rest of the world, you have to go to the so called "old" version.
brian@cimage.com (Brian Kelley) (02/12/91)
In article <27B32C45.6949@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes: >We're using the automounter that comes with Ultrix 4.1 pretty heavily >on 12 DECstation 5000s. Occasionally, the automounter refuses to >mount a partition, and recently, has been getting a "bus error" and >the system has to be rebooted to become usable again. Are other people >seeing problems like these under Ultrix 4.1? After having the automounter in 4.1 die for no apparent reason a couple of times, I have come to the conclusion that it seems flakey. We run the same automount maps and setup on all of our hosts and rarely have problems. I called DEC. The software support person I spoke with had me look at the object modules dates in my version of automount. All of the modules are dated 4/21/90 or earlier. The date on the executable is August '90. The most recent patched version for 4.0 he had was dated October '90. There are no new versions for 4.1. He is sending us a copy of the patched 4.0 version to try. I don't like that idea a whole lot, but it seems the version he is sending us is more recent than the one we are running. I have a core dump from the automounter I'm going to try and get them to look at. Any further thoughts or suggestions (before I throw away vendor supplied automounters forever and go with AMD)? --- brian@cimage.com