[Bug 40189] Re: [SRU] [xenial] [bionic] autofs needs to be restarted to pick up some shares

[Kevin]

I'm running into this bug as well on 16.04.5

I've tried the autofs.service (SystemD) solution. I've tried the startup
scripts in the rc.local and it "seems" to work most of the time, but not
really ideal.

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Title:
  [SRU] [xenial] [bionic] autofs needs to be restarted to pick up some
  shares

Status in autofs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in autofs5 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in upstart package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in autofs source package in Xenial:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I am using autofs to access shares on a Windows XP machine from a
  Kubuntu AMD64 machine.  The problems applies in both Breezy and
  Dapper.

  EDIT:  confirmed with similar configuration on Intrepid with a NetApp
  filer hosting NFS.  Server OS removed from summary.

  When I first try to access the mount point via cd or in Konqueror it
  does not exist.  However,  if I then restart autofs
  (/etc/init.d/autofs restart) everythin then works OK.  My config files
  are:

  auto.master

  #
  # $Id: auto.master,v 1.3 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $
  #
  # Sample auto.master file
  # This is an automounter map and it has the following format
  # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
  # For details of the format look at autofs(5).
  #/misc	/etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
  #/misc	/etc/auto.misc
  #/net	/etc/auto.net

  /petunia /etc/petunia.misc --timeout=60

  
  petunia.misc

  #
  # $Id: auto.misc,v 1.2 2003/09/29 08:22:35 raven Exp $
  #
  # This is an automounter map and it has the following format
  # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
  # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage

  cd              -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom

  tony	-fstype=smbfs,defaults,password=xxx,fmask=777,dmask=777	://192.168.1.2/tony
  chris	-fstype=smbfs,defaults,password=xxx,fmask=777,dmask=777	://192.168.1.2/chris
  shared	-fstype=smbfs,defaults,password=xxx,fmask=777,dmask=777	://192.168.1.2/SharedDocs
  linuxbackups	-fstype=smbfs,defaults,password=xxx,fmask=777,dmask=777	://192.168.1.2/linuxbackups

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