On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, why does autofs5 daemon crash with a core dump when the system is under high load

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Issue

  • Autofs5 crashes with a SEGFAULT and dumps core. The following message can be seen in the /var/log/messages file:
 Aug 27 18:02:34 hostname kernel: automount5[21465]: segfault at 0000000000000020 rip 000000552aabbe81 rsp 0000000044a45e70 error 4
  • This causes a core dump to be generated.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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