Automount thread hangs while remounting active mounts during startup

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Issue

  • We recently made some changes to the automounters configuration and tried to restart it (service autofs restart). It shutdown, but hung on the restart.
  • Automount thread hangs while remounting active mounts during startup.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
    • seen on kernel 2.6.32-358.6.1.el6 (other versions likely affected)
    • seen on autofs-5.0.5-73.el6.x86_64 (other versions likely affected)

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