Autofs won't automount

Question

Hello everyone,
I followed the wiki for autofs step by step (minus the things I don't care about, I only need usb and cd/dvds to automount) and when I was done I still couldn't get it to actually automounting.
What could I do to see where the error is?

Answer 1

*************EDIT: SOLVED**************
I had probably forgotten '1' at the end of sdb1, now my /etc/autofs/auto.misc looks like this:
flashb -fstype=auto,async,nodev,nosuid,umask=000,gid=disk :/dev/sdb1
I also removed --timeout option in auto.master, and autofs is working fine now.
I have exact same problem.
More info:
1. Flash drive has a 1gb ext4 partition and works perfectly elsewhere.
$ lsblk /dev/sdb
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb 8:16 1 954M 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 1 953M 0 part
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000 MB, 1000341504 bytes, 1953792 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00056ce1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 1953791 975872 83 Linux
2. Modprobe'd autofs4, but doesn't show up in lsmod, is this normal?
$ modprobe autofs4 && lsmod | grep autofs4
3. Autofs config files:
/etc/autofs/auto.master
# Sample auto.master file
# Format of this file:
# mountpoint map options
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
/media/autofs /etc/autofs/auto.misc --timeout=1
/etc/autofs/auto.misc
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage
usbstick -fstype=auto,async,nodev,nosuid,umask=000 :/dev/sdb
cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,nodev,nosuid :/dev/cdrom
#floppy -fstype=auto,async,nodev,nosuid,umask=000 :/dev/fl
/etc/conf.d/autofs
#localoptions='rsize=8192,wsize=8192'
# e.g. --timeout=60
daemonoptions=''
There is this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf
automount: files
4. Daemon looks ok
$ sudo systemctl status autofs
autofs.service - Automounts filesystems on demand
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2013-04-14 14:42:54 AMT; 28min ago
Process: 2405 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/automount $OPTIONS --pid-file /run/autofs.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2407 (automount)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/autofs.service
└─2407 /usr/sbin/automount --pid-file /run/autofs.pid
Apr 14 14:42:54 work2 systemd[1]: Started Automounts filesystems on demand.
5. Permissions of /etc/autofs/auto.master /etc/autofs/auto.media /etc/autofs/auto.misc /etc/conf.d/autofs are all 644 ( -rw-r--r-- ).
Any help appreciated.
Last edited by axper (2013-04-24 18:56:18)