[Bug 1050021] Re: autofs failed to mount .hidden

[Dan Streetman]

Is this still an issue for anyone?  I just tested with Bionic, and as
far as I can tell autofs correctly handles the failure to mount non-
existent nfs shares, like '.hidden'.  I have no delay (well, less than 1
second, while it checks wtih the nfs server and gets an error back
because the nfs file/dir doesn't exist), and I tested from the command
line, using nautilus, and using thunar; all seem to work completely fine
with no delays.

** Changed in: autofs (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  autofs failed to mount .hidden

Status in autofs package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I use autofs to mount network drive via NFS (Ubuntu 12.04 with all
  updates).

  Configuration files:
   /etc/auto.master:
  ------------------------
   /media /etc/auto.nfs --timeout 10

  /etc/auto.nfs:
  ----------------
  myshare -fstype=nfs4,soft,intr 192.168.1.1:/

  I made the directory /media/myshare in advance.

  First a stopped service: "service autofs stop" and run "automount -f -v" to see its messages.
  Than I tried to access /media/myshare.  ls is OK, mc from console too but when I do it with nautilus I get " failed to mount /media/.hidden" and nothing else happens. What is interesting, sometimes the first attempt works but the second fails and myshare directory is deleted!

  This is the situation on Ubuntu 12.04. At the same time the same
  configuration works perfectly on Kubuntu 12.04 with Krusader and
  Dolphin. Any ideas or workarounds?

  Note: what is wrong with autofs? There is an old "syntax error" bug
  (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs5/+bug/488696) that I
  had to fix first and now this one I don't know what to do about.

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