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