I have seen that too occasionally. The weird thing is, that I have many machines here installed from the same kickstart file, so you would assume they are more or less identical, yet on some systems autofs gets temporarily removed, and on others it just gets updated as expected. Apart for /etc/auto.master, the file /etc/sysconfig/autofs may also get renamed to /etc/sysconfig/autofs.rpmsave if you modified it. Autofs is the only package where I have ever seen this behaviour. I did not yet file a bug report, since it was impossible to reproduce consistently But now that I see that the bug is not unique to my configuration, I filed it in bugzilla, #239408 (of course I have no idea if the actual bug is autofs, or yum or rpm) David Jansen On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:17:46PM +0100, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry, this is a bit of a complaint, but others might experience the same > issue, and there is possibly an underlying reason / problem ... > > Following a reboot the autofs service was failing to start because the > automount daemon was not able to read the master map auto.master. File > /etc/auto.master had been renamed to /etc/auto.master.rpmsave. > [root@rockover etc]# ls -lc auto.master.rpmsave > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 682 May 5 17:28 auto.master.rpmsave > > Checking the yum log suggests that yum erased the autofs RPM, causing the > modified auto.master to be saved with the .rpmsave extension, and then > upgraded it. > [root@rockover etc]# grep autofs /var/log/yum.log > Feb 07 20:23:29 Updated: autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.14 > Feb 13 20:40:27 Updated: autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.16 > Feb 16 20:24:50 Updated: autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.19 > Feb 25 14:04:27 Updated: autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.21 > Mar 03 12:03:50 Erased: autofs > Mar 03 12:19:01 Updated: autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.23 > Mar 11 12:31:58 Updated: autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.25 > Mar 16 19:17:25 Updated: autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.26 > May 05 17:28:04 Erased: autofs > May 05 17:28:44 Updated: autofs.i386 1:5.0.1-0.rc3.29 > > To fix the issue simply move the file back and start autofs. > mv /etc/auto.master.rpmsave /etc/auto.master > service autofs start > > The interesting question is why did yum decide to erase autofs as part of > the upgrade procedure? > > Thanks, > Mike > -- > __ __ _ _ ___ ____ _ ___ ___ _ ___ ___ _ > | \/ (_| | _ / _ \ | ___| | / _ \/ _ \| |_ _ _ _/ \/ \ _| | > | |\/| | | |/ | ___| | _| | |_| __| ___| __| \/ \/| O | O / _ | > |_| |_|_|_|\_\\___| |_| |____\___|\___||____\_/^\_/\___/\___/\___| > >
