[SunHELP] Problem with vold

[Ben Ricker]

I am running Solaris 8 on a Sun E250. I have a CD in the cdrom drive but
I cannot, for the life of me, get vold to mount the dang thing
correctly. 

I tried stopping and starting vold. No joy.

I tried stopping vold and 'umount -f' the cdrom entries in mnttab. For
some reason, there are entries for CDs I had mounted at one time still
in the mnttab. I was able to unmount some entries, but I get an error on
others because it cannot find the /cdrom directory that the device is
mounted to.

So, here is the mnttab with vold stopped:

/vol/dev/dsk/c0t6d0/sol_8_401_sparc/s0  /cdrom/sol_8_401_sparc/s0       hsfs    maplcase,noglobal,nosuid,ro,rr,traildot,dev=16c0002  1060114878
/vol/dev/dsk/c0t6d0/sol_9_902_sparc/s0  /cdrom/sol_9_902_sparc/s0       hsfs    maplcase,noglobal,nosuid,ro,rr,traildot,dev=16c000d  1061239644

I try to umount -f the entries above and get the errors:

umount: /cdrom/sol_8_401_sparc/s0 no such file or directory
umount: /cdrom/sol_9_902_sparc/s0 no such file or directory

After i restart vold, mnttab shows the following new entries:

host.domain.com:vold(pid28765)    /vol    nfs     ignore,dev=3b00007      1064423514
/vol/dev/dsk/c0t6d0/sol_9_902_sparc/s5  /cdrom/sol_9_902_sparc/s5       ufs     ro,intr,largefiles,onerror=panic,nosuid,dev=16c0006  1064423519
/vol/dev/dsk/c0t6d0/sol_9_902_sparc/s4  /cdrom/sol_9_902_sparc/s4       ufs     ro,intr,largefiles,onerror=panic,nosuid,dev=16c0005  1064423519
/vol/dev/dsk/c0t6d0/sol_9_902_sparc/s3  /cdrom/sol_9_902_sparc/s3       ufs     ro,intr,largefiles,onerror=panic,nosuid,dev=16c0004  1064423519
/vol/dev/dsk/c0t6d0/sol_9_902_sparc/s2  /cdrom/sol_9_902_sparc/s2       ufs     ro,intr,largefiles,onerror=panic,nosuid,dev=16c0003  1064423519

The important directory is s0, which has the pkg I need to get. However,
an 'ls' in the directory show 0 files.

Any pointers here? I cannot reboot the box as this is an important
production server and I REALLY need the pkg off of the Solaris 8 CD.
Another possible solution is to move th CD to another box. Since this CD
is at our data center, I will have to call for someone to be waiting
there to open catch it as it falls out 9the E250 is mounted in the rack
sideways).

Thanks,

Ben Ricker
Wellinx, Inc.