Automount fails to start

[hovh03]

(I posted this in newsgroup, but so few traffic there, I hope this is a better place to post. Sorry for the cross post)

Open Suse 10.3

This used to work. It just stops working, and I am not sure why. Using "smart" software management, my softwares appear to be up to date. Also, no item in Yast starts up for me (after log into Yast successfully). I check DBUS and HAL is running. I can login and startx manually.

Here's the error message in the start up log:

<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/automount) [ /usr/sbin/automount ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.86 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=156 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/SuSE/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg PREVLEVEL=N LINES=60 SHLVL=2 HOME=/ splash=silent SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_STM35006_9QG0LZ8C-part2 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/automount ]
Starting automount /usr/sbin/automount: kernel protocol version 5.00 or above required.
startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/automount: 1
failed

Failed services in runlevel 5: autofs

I have no idea how to fix this problem. Please help.

[stewjack]

My knowledge is limited, but I have installed the SUSE 10.3 Live-CD on my hard drive.

Question 1: Are you saying that you had already installed SUSE 10.3 on your system, but now it will not boot?

Question 2: Are you dual booting with Windows?

Question 3: How did you partition your hard drive?

It could be a problem (among other things) with your hard drive, your partitions geometry, or maybe your SUSE partition's file structure. What did you do with your computer between your last successful boot of SUSE and your unsuccessful boot?

Linux / Unix Command: autofs
autofs - Linux Command - Unix Command

Jack

[hovh03]

I got the problem fixed!

This is a Linux only system. It was installed and working. There are 3 partitions. 1 for "/", 1 for swap and another for /home

Looking around, I found that I can't write to /tmp.
In /tmp, there are about 32000 directory. Mostly YaST2*.

Delete all these directory fixed the problem. The error for this problem is really cryptic and doesn't seem to say anything about this.

I think this relates to some infinite loop problem with the Yast update program mentioned lately.

For new users, I am not sure how they can solve this. For newbies whole have a similar problem, check your /tmp directory. Login as root (using "su" command), and run this script (put it a file first) in the /tmp directory:

#!/bin/sh

for i in `ls`
do
afile=`expr substr $i 1 5`
if [ "$afile" == "YaST2" ]; then
echo $i
rm -rf $i
fi
done

[stewjack]

You sound like you have plenty of Linux experience. Much more than me,probably. I did download and install that "endless loop" Yast patch, but I think I will check my /tmp directory anyway.

I have dial-up, and I would hate for my SUSE install to crash before I learn to use the Yast system backup. Hours and hours of download time are involved!

Jack

[hovh03]

You may want to read this thread, near the bottom. There are several suggestions of how to delete the directories. With the last one the simplest (just restart your machine afterward).

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