Comment 4 for bug 683938

I'm at a meeting as I type this, but as soon as I'm back to my desk I'll get
some examples. Note that the kernel traces are just of clear random memory
faults at various places.

Thomas

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Etienne Goyer
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Thomas, can you provide (sanitized) dmesg output from the machine that
> crash?
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> Title:
> kernel crash on symlink chased from NFS to failing automount
>
> Status in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Create an automount indirect map entry to a nfs server that will deny the
> mount with a permission denied error.
> Create a symlink on some mounted NFS partition pointing at the name of that
> automount indirect map entry.
> Chase the symlink with ls, etc.
> Notice that the automounter tries and fails to mount the partition.
> (visible with automount -d -f, say)
>
> In a few minutes, depending on system activity, the kernel will crash with
> the symptoms of a memory corruption error.
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