[ec2-beta] apt-get install autofs hangs

[Rodney T. Quillo]

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On Friday 13 March 2009 23:01:04 Paul Cullum wrote:
> Sorry... I don't know why I didn't notice this right away.  My apt-get
> install doesn't have a -y option.  I added that, tried again and it
> works fine.  It was just waiting for a "Yes" response.
>
> Despite that, my question about success with autofs still stands.
>
> Paul Cullum wrote:
> > BTW.  Has anyone here successfully used autofs to mount attached EBS
> > volumes?  It's one approach I'm trying to figure out and I haven't had
> > any success yet.  It should be possible and if it turns out to work
> > well perhaps we could consider autofs to be part of the base AMI?
> >
> > Paul Cullum wrote:
> >> My ec2-run-user-data script does a number of things including
> >> installing some packages.  The last package it tries to install is
> >> autofs and for whatever reason, this hangs when installed from the
> >> script.
> >> I'm going to take a wild guess here but... what happens to the stdout
> >> and stderr of this script and processes called by these scripts?  I
> >> know a process will hang when it can't write anymore to stdout and
> >> stderr.  That output needs to be consumed.
> >>
> >> Or is there something else going on here?  If it is an issue with
> >> stdout then perhaps my "apt-get update" is too verbose.  I might try
> >> this again with some some stdout redirects to /dev/null.
> >>
> >> root      3108  0.0  0.0   1848   568 ?        S    09:30   0:00
> >> /bin/sh /etc/rc2.d/S90ec2-init start
> >> root      3131  0.0  0.2   6512  4136 ?        S    09:30   0:00
> >> /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/ec2-run-user-data
> >> root      3132  0.0  0.0   1768   536 ?        S    09:30   0:00
> >> logger -t user-data
> >> root      3133  0.0  0.0   1848   492 ?        S    09:30   0:00 sh
> >> -c /tmp/tmpjNVKT2 | logger -t "user-data"
> >> root      3134  0.0  0.0   2844  1244 ?        S    09:30   0:00
> >> /bin/bash /tmp/tmpjNVKT2
> >> root      3136  0.0  0.0   1768   536 ?        S    09:30   0:00
> >> logger -t user-data
> >> root      3190  0.0  0.1   8580  3032 ?        Ss   09:30   0:00
> >> sshd: root at pts/0
> >> root      3194  0.0  0.1  16708  2812 ?        Ssl  09:30   0:00
> >> /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
> >> root      3264  0.0  0.1   4212  1816 pts/0    Ss   09:30   0:00 -bash
> >> root      3312  0.4  0.9  19312 16420 ?        S    09:31   0:04
> >> apt-get install autofs
> >> root      3467  0.0  0.0   2748  1008 pts/0    R+   09:50   0:00 ps aux
> >>
> >> Paul