Re: cvs update hangs 'amd' in tstile when 'firefox' is running

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1602281922460.23793%david.technoskunk.fur@localhost>,
John D. Baker <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
>I finally got my i386-current systems set up to investigate this further.
>
>One thing I hadn't thought about before is that normally, there is only
>one 'amd' process managing all the automount points.
>
>In the case of the system with processes stuck in "tstile", something
>spawns a second 'amd' process and it is this second process that gets
>stuck.  I suspect is is trying to service the same mount points that
>are already active and so gets stuck.

Amd always forks to do things that might get stuck, like mounts and unmounts.

christos