automount: warning: could not read at least one map source after waiting, continuing ...

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • These messages are observed every time autofs service restarts:

    # service autofs restart
or
# systemctl restart autofs

    [/var/log/messages]

Nov 20 13:31:44 localhost automount[11081]: problem reading master map, maximum wait exceeded
Nov 20 13:31:44 localhost automount[11081]: automount: warning: could not read at least one map source after waiting, continuing ...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • autofs

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