[Bug 768846] [NEW] autofs does not mount /net/host

[Massimo Dal Zotto]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: autofs5

Following the example in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs I'm
trying to automount the root of a NFS server but it doesn't work:

$ ls -l /net/server
ls: cannot access /net/server: No such file or directory

$ ls -l /net/server/
ls: cannot access /net/server: No such file or directory

However the automount succeds if I append a "." or a subdir after the
server path:

$ ls -l /net/server/.
total 124
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2011-04-20 22:25 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2009-10-30 10:50 boot
...

$ ls -l /net/server/bin
total 6732
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       4 2010-10-11 14:21 ash -> dash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  801808 2010-08-10 21:58 bash
...

and after the server root has been automounted it works also with the
server path only:

$ ls -l /net/server
total 124
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2011-04-20 22:25 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2009-10-30 10:50 boot
...

With previous versions of autofs (autofs5_5.0.5-0ubuntu2 of
ubuntu-10.10) I was able to automount the path "/net/server". After a
fresh install of  ubuntu-11.04-beta2-alternate-i386 this is no more
possible.

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System information:

Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 22 09:47:30 2011
Dependencies:
  coreutils 8.5-1ubuntu6
  debconf 1.5.36ubuntu4
  debconf-i18n 1.5.36ubuntu4
  dpkg 1.16.0~ubuntu7
  gcc-4.5-base 4.5.2-8ubuntu4
  libacl1 2.2.49-4ubuntu2
  libattr1 1:2.4.44-2ubuntu3
  libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6ubuntu1
  libc-bin 2.13-0ubuntu13
  libc6 2.13-0ubuntu13
  libgcc1 1:4.5.2-8ubuntu4
  liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6
  liblzma2 5.0.0-2
  libselinux1 2.0.96-1ubuntu2
  libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-6
  libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-2
  libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-7
  libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2
  multiarch-support 2.13-0ubuntu13
  perl-base 5.10.1-17ubuntu4
  tzdata 2011e-1
  ucf 3.0025+nmu1ubuntu1
  xz-utils 5.0.0-2
  zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
Package: autofs5 5.0.5-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProblemType: Bug
ProcEnviron:
  SHELL=/bin/bash
  PATH=(custom, user)
  LC_COLLATE=C
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=en_US:en
  LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
SourcePackage: autofs5
Tags:  natty running-unity
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release:        11.04

$ apt-cache policy autofs5
autofs5:
  Installed: 5.0.5-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 5.0.5-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 5.0.5-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

** Affects: autofs5 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: natty

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Title:
  autofs does not mount /net/host