Comment 11 for bug 571972

On 25 May 2010, at 12:49 am, James Sparenberg wrote:

> I wish to retract my statement about 100% effective on adding the line
> mount_type = autofs as I've run into two upgrade systems that did not
> work right, so much so that it eventually borked the install on one.
> (No problem thanks to amd I've got disposable installs however ........
> ) ;)
>
> Has anyone tried pining the am-utils version in 10.04 back to the
> version from 9.10 or 9.04? I'm wondering if that will give a clue as to
> what changed. I'm planning on doing some experimentation in this
> direction I'll report what I find.

I suspect you'll find it's not that am-utils has changed (the version of the package will probably be the same, at least at the upstream version, 6.1.5, which came out in 2006 or so) but that the Linux kernel has changed, and am-utils has failed to keep up with it. I've been talking on the am-utils mailing list over the past 24 hours, and there is still one maintainer of the upstream package. There hasn't been a release for almost five years now, but there have been some changes going on in a pre-release capacity, and I'm going to attempt building a package from the current git sources at some point in the next couple of weeks, if I find the time. Keep an eye out for an upload to Debian sid (I don't target Ubuntu directly)

Tim