On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9, automount leaves stale entries in /net during umount's

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • autofs fails to unmount entries in /net the directory will appear to exist but will be completely empty.
  • Changing to a recently unmounted /net directory and running an ls produces the error:
# ls 
ls: .: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
  • kernel 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5
  • autofs 5.0.1-0.rc2.177.el5

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