Steps to follow if automount fails to mount on AIX

There are courses of action that you can take if the automount fails to mount on AIX® server.

On AIX, perform these steps:

First, verify that GPFS is up and running.
Verify that GPFS has established autofs mounts for each automount file system. Issue the following command:
```
mount | grep autofs
```
The output is similar to this:
```
/var/mmfs/gen/mmDirectMap /gpfs/gpfs55 autofs Jun 25 15:03 ignore
/var/mmfs/gen/mmDirectMap /gpfs/gpfs88 autofs Jun 25 15:03 ignore
```
These are direct mount autofs mount entries. Each GPFS automount file system have an autofs mount entry. These autofs direct mounts allow GPFS to mount on the GPFS mount point. To create any missing GPFS autofs mounts, issue the mmcommon startAutomounter command, or stop and restart GPFS using the mmshutdown and mmstartup commands.
Verify that the autofs daemon is running. Issue this command:
```
ps -ef | grep automount
```
Output is similar to this:
```
root 9820 4240 0 15:02:50 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/automountd
```
To start the automount daemon, issue the mmcommon startAutomounter command, or stop and restart GPFS using the mmshutdown and mmstartup commands.
Verify that the mount command was issued to GPFS by examining the GPFS log. You should see something like this:
```
Mon Jun 25 11:33:03 2007: Command: mount gpfsx2.kgn.ibm.com:gpfs55 5182
```
Since the autofs daemon logs status using syslogd, examine the syslogd log file for status information from automountd. Here is an example of a failed automount request:
```
Jun 25 15:55:25 gpfsa1 automountd [9820 ] :mount of /gpfs/gpfs55:status 13
```
After you have established that GPFS has received a mount request from autofs (Step 4) and that mount request failed (Step 5), issue a mount command for the GPFS file system and follow the directions in File system fails to mount.
If automount fails for a non-GPFS file system and you are using file /etc/auto.master, use file /etc/auto_master instead. Add the entries from /etc/auto.master to /etc/auto_master and restart the automount daemon.