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# 8  
Old 05-27-2014
OK, the problem is ... you were still in /home when you removed it.

1. Log out from all other users.
2. As root, change dir to /root or /
3. Run lsof /home. If there are processes listed, kill them. (bash must be killed with -1)
4. Now restart autofs

Try again.
# 9  
Old 05-28-2014
Well I did it. But the issue still persists.

Code:
[root@Barium ~]# cd /
[root@Barium /]# lsof /home/
COMMAND     PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF  NODE NAME
automount 26901 root   10r   DIR   0,18        0 42788 /home
[root@Barium /]# kill -9 26901
[root@Barium /]# service automount status
automount: unrecognized service
[root@Barium /]# service autofs status
automount dead but subsys locked
[root@Barium /]# service autofs stop
Stopping automount:                                        [  OK  ]
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]# service autofs start
Starting automount:                                        [  OK  ]
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]# lsof /home/
COMMAND     PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF  NODE NAME
automount 27161 root   10r   DIR   0,18        0 44781 /home
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]#
[root@Barium /]# su - nisuser
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/nisuser: No such file or directory

# 10  
Old 06-02-2014
Do you know for sure that you can mount /home/nisuser on this host?

Try (as root):
Code:
mkdir /mnt/nisuser
chmod 755 /mnt/nisuser
mount titanium:/home/nisuser /mnt/nisuser
ls -l /mnt/nisuser

If it doesn't mount, there's a problem with the server side (check the exports file? Run exportfs -a ? Is NFS service running?)

If it does mount, the problem is apparently with autofs itself.

Last edited by otheus; 06-02-2014 at 05:48 AM.. Reason: mount command fix and ls command fix
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