Suddenly autofs not able to mount home directory

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

The autofs suddenly stop getting home directory of users , To resolve we need to restart the autofs service or sometime it failed to start so need to forcestart . while going throught message logs found this error;

automount[3136]: umount_autofs_indirect: ask umount returned busy /home
Mar 13 19:14:25 hostname kernel: automount[352702]: segfault at fffffffffffffff0 ip 00007f59632d82f5 sp 00007f5960842a50 error 4 in automount[7f59632bd000+3b000]

from this link https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846852
its been reported has bug so need the clarification as well as solution we are facing this issue almost everyday.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • autofs

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