Why does automount leaves stale entries in /net during umount?

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Issue

  • Autofs fails to unmount entries in /net the directory.
  • Directories exist but are completely empty.
  • Changing to a recently unmounted /net directory and running an ls produces the error:
ls: .: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • autofs-5.0.5-74.el6_4.x86_64

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