[Sunhelp] RE: Solaris 8 - unable to mount cdrom - SLIGHT SUMMARY

[Matt Tilley]

I had a couple of replies, which I wanted to thank those individuals (Robert
F. and Ben D.).  To answer those replies - unfortunately I'm off-site now,
so I won't be able to try it again until I get back there (so patches will
have to wait, ISP connection between Sun site and that site was too slow and
the CD that I had I couldn't get mounted), but I thought that I would
address a couple of the suggestions:

1.)	 I didn't try file manager - but I wouldn't think that it would see
something that I couldn't see with an "ls" (but will try just in case).

2.)	Vold was running, but no /cdrom was ever created.  Perhaps the
problem was that after placing CD in drive I cd'ed to / and didn't see a
/cdrom, so I first created it 	prior to invoking "volcheck" - maybe I
should have invoked "volcheck" first and /cdrom would have been created?  I
would have thought that the directory would have 	been created during
the Solaris install, but who knows.  

The rest of the package, "Permissions check, vold log, a vol directory w/i
containing a /dev/dsk/<cdrom device>, /etc/vold.conf., /etc/rmmount.conf"
are areas that I will check on my next site visit - as well as checking them
here on my home system (Sparc 5) to be better acquainted with them for
future reference.  

Thanks again, I can't wait to try these suggestions out.

- Matt


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ben Dougherty [SMTP:benjamind at miles33.co.uk]
> Sent:	Friday, July 21, 2000 7:32 AM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	Re: [Sunhelp] Solaris 8 - unable to mount cdrom (w/or w/o
> volcheck)
> 
> A volume management daemon called 'vold'
> handles the mounting of cdroms and
> floppys, you should'nt have had to
> create a directory /cdrom as this should
> have been created with the install. When
> vold detects an inserted cd it mounts
> the device within the /cdrom directory.
> If you have created it make sure
> the permissions are ok.
> 
> Check out /var/adm/vold.log
> 
> Make sure vold is running 'ps -elf |
> grep vold' and check out the man page on
> it.
> 
> Check that you have a /vol directory
> within that it should contain
> dev/dsk/<cdrom device>
> 
> Check your /etc/vold.conf has the
> following entries:
> 
> # Labels supported
> label cdrom label_cdrom.so cdrom
> # Devices to use
> use cdrom drive /dev/rdsk/c*s2
> dev_cdrom.so cdrom%d
> # Actions
> insert dev/dsk/* user=root
> /usr/sbin/rmmount
> eject dev/dsk/* user=root
> /usr/sbin/rmmount
> 
> Check out your /etc/rmmount.conf file
> for the following:
> 
> # File system identification
> ident hsfs ident_hsfs.so cdrom
> ident ufs ident_ufs.so cdrom floppy
> rmscsi pcmem
> 
> # Actions
> action cdrom action_filemgr.so
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Ben.
> 
> Matt Tilley wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've just done a fresh install of Solaris 8 on a Sparc 10, so I know
> that
> > the cdrom is seen by system (install done w/cd).  I've created /cdrom
> (and,
> > just to be sure, /CDROM). The link exists for c0t6d0s0,1,2,3,4 and 6 in
> > /dev/dsk/.  FWIW, sd6 can also be seen in dmesg.
> > 
> > The problem is that after inserting a CD into the cdrom drive, waiting a
> few
> > seconds for the flashing leds to finish, I do a "volcheck" - cd to
> /cdrom
> > and I don't see anything (no other directories, files, or anything).
> I've
> > tried manually mounting /dev/dsk/c0t6d0sx, but get an error message
> > (/dev/dsk/c0t6d0sx is alreay mounted, /cdrom is busy or the allowable
> number
> > of mount points has been exceeded).  To be sure, I unmount /cdrom and
> get
> > the expected error message:  warning: /cdrom not in mnttab, /cdrom not
> > mounted.
> > 
> > This is probably an easy one, but without the answer it isn't easy to
> me!!
> > 
> > Anyway with a helpful clue on this?
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > - Matt
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