Why did automount throw segfault error messages in system log?

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Issue

  • Automount process crashed and had to be manually restarted system.
  • Following messages were printed in /var/log/messages:
Oct 21 08:01:27 xxx kernel: automount[18856]: segfault at 0000000000000110 rip 00002aaaabe502be rsp 0000000040a42860 error 6  

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.143.el5_5.4

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