Why does my autofs service do not run on my linux container?

8/28/2019

When deploying my system using kubernetes, autofs service is not running on the container.

running service autofs status returns the following error:

[FAIL] automount is not running ... failed!

running service autofs start returns the following error:

[....] Starting automount.../usr/sbin/automount: test mount forbidden or incorrect kernel protocol version, kernel protocol version 5.00 or above required. failed (no valid automount entries defined.).

  • /etc/fstab file does exist in my file system.
-- Nadav Miran
kubernetes
nfs

1 Answer

8/29/2019

You probably didn't load the module for it. Official documenatation: autofs.

One of the reason for this error too,can be /tmp directory is not present or it's permission/ownership is wrong. Check if your /etc/fstab file exists.

Useful blog: nfs-autofs.

-- MaggieO
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