autofs stops responding after "setmntent: Too many open files" occur in the logs
Issue
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The automount daemon is dying on regular basis. No home directories are available after that. Personal web sites in
/home/*/public_html
are unreachable and personal file shares through samba are down. -
The following messages are logged in /var/log/messages :
automount[19080]: set_tsd_user_vars: failed to get passwd info from getpwuid_r
automount[19080]: get_mnt_list:363: setmntent: Too many open files
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
- NFS-server resolves to IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
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