[SunHELP] Unable to umount cdrom

[Joe Pampel]

FWIW..

I've had alot of headaches using CD Rom's with Solaris so I can share what
I've had to do from time to time..

First, try your basic "eject cdrom"
1 out of 5 times maybe that works for me.
next, since the thing is "busy", kill the process which has it:
fuser -k /cdrom/cdrom0   (-k to kill process)
sometimes this works.=20
When all else fails, I bounce volume management.

/etc/init.d/volmgt stop

manually eject the disk=20

/etc/init.d/volmgt start

This one never fails, and IMHO it beats rebooting.

HTH,

Joe


>>> Bashar <big at kuwaitnet.net> 08/16/01 06:34AM >>>

	 no one is using it i got the sol, it seems vold is currepted or
something i killed it and unmounted /cdrom/oracle8i manullay and ejected
the cdrom manullay it worked! thank you

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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Will Mc Donald wrote:

> Sounds like something/someone is still using it. When you put in a CD =
does a
> little File Manager type window pop open automatically? If so is that =
being
> closed? Does anyone have a terminal open that's sitting cd'ed in that
> directory?
>
> If you don't have lsof installed have a look at fuser. Something like...
>
> # /usr/sbin/fuser /cdrom
>
> Will.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bashar" <big at kuwaitnet.net>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:12 AM
> Subject: [SunHELP] Unable to umount cdrom
>
>
> > Regards,
> > I'm facing sme regular problem on ultra10 and E250 taht am unable
> > to umount the cdrom for somereason unless i reboot any idea why this
> > problem happen ? Thanks in advance.
>
>
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