On 09/29/2011 09:23 AM, Alain Péan wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Le 29/09/2011 18:18, Joe Pruett a écrit : >> since you mention nis, i'll guess you use automount as well. so be >> warned that centos 6 has some issues with automount. if automount >> requests are made rapidly (like on a mail server delivery to a large >> alias), it will quickly start failing to mount directories and get stuck >> that way for minutes. i don't have access to r*dh*t box to determine if >> this has been fixed with all the 6.1 updates. needless to say i can't >> roll out centos 6 yet. > Did you try to install the CentOS 6 CR repo (continuous releaes), which > brings to 6.0 the updates from 6.1 ? See : > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=33458&forum=53 > > See if it solves the problem. sorry, forgot to mention that i have applied the cr updates. but i don't think the cr has everything from 6.1 yet (no new kernel, which i'd guess there will be). since the devs are still having issues with getting 6.1 to fully compile, i expect more packages to show up. there was an autofs update, but that didn't help the situation.