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Fatal errors
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   Amd attempts to deal with unusual events.  Whenever it is not
possible to deal with such an error, Amd will log an appropriate
message and, if it cannot possibly continue, will either exit or abort.
These messages are selected by `-x fatal' on the command line.  When
syslog(3) is being used, they are logged with level `LOG_FATAL'.  Even
if Amd continues to operate it is likely to remain in a precarious
state and should be restarted at the earliest opportunity.

Attempting to inherit not-a-filesystem
     The prototype mount point created during a filesystem restart did
     not contain a reference to the restarted filesystem.  This error
     "should never happen".

Can't bind to domain "NIS-domain"
     A specific NIS domain was requested on the command line, but no
     server for that domain is available on the local net.

Can't determine IP address of this host (hostname)
     When Amd starts it determines its own IP address.  If this lookup
     fails then Amd cannot continue.  The hostname it looks up is that
     obtained returned by gethostname(2) system call.

Can't find root file handle for automount point
     Amd creates its own file handles for the automount points.  When it
     mounts itself as a server, it must pass these file handles to the
     local kernel.  If the filehandle is not obtainable the mount point
     is ignored.  This error "should never happen".

Must be root to mount filesystems (euid = euid)
     To prevent embarrassment, Amd makes sure it has appropriate system
     privileges.  This amounts to having an euid of 0.  The check is
     made after argument processing complete to give non-root users a
     chance to access the `-v' option.

No work to do - quitting
     No automount points were given on the command line and so there is
     no work to do.

Out of memory
     While attempting to malloc some memory, the memory space available
     to Amd was exhausted.  This is an unrecoverable error.

Out of memory in realloc
     While attempting to realloc some memory, the memory space
     available to Amd was exhausted.  This is an unrecoverable error.

cannot create rpc/udp service
     Either the NFS or AMQ endpoint could not be created.

gethostname: description
     The gethostname(2) system call failed during startup.

host name is not set
     The gethostname(2) system call returned a zero length host name.
     This can happen if Amd is started in single user mode just after
     booting the system.

ifs_match called!
     An internal error occurred while restarting a pre-mounted
     filesystem.  This error "should never happen".

mount_afs: description
     An error occurred while Amd was mounting itself.

run_rpc failed
     Somehow the main NFS server loop failed.  This error "should never
     happen".

unable to free rpc arguments in amqprog_1
     The incoming arguments to the AMQ server could not be free'ed.

unable to free rpc arguments in nfs_program_1
     The incoming arguments to the NFS server could not be free'ed.

unable to register (AMQ_PROGRAM, AMQ_VERSION, udp)
     The AMQ server could not be registered with the local portmapper
     or the internal RPC dispatcher.

unable to register (NFS_PROGRAM, NFS_VERSION, 0)
     The NFS server could not be registered with the internal RPC
     dispatcher.

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