topic Re: Cannot pfs_umount anymore therefore cannot EJECT!! in Operating System - HP-UX

Cannot pfs_umount anymore therefore cannot EJECT!!

Daniel Simard — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:16:20 GMT

Hi !
We had a cd pfsmounted and somebody tried the command (umount) instead of psf_umount. Now, we cannot pfs_umount and therefore cannot eject the CD_Rom.

We did try pfs_mounting and pfs_umounting but still, no problem.

The only other thing to do is to reboot but I don't want to do that. Have you ever heard of this happening?

Re: Cannot pfs_umount anymore therefore cannot EJECT!!

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:18:24 GMT

fuser -cuk /cdrom

That should kill all processeson the cdrom.

Next time try the script I'm attaching. It negates the need for pfs_mount

SEP

Re: Cannot pfs_umount anymore therefore cannot EJECT!!

Dave Johnson_1 — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:19:50 GMT

This happened to me several times. I was never able to determine anything other than reboot.
I even tried killing the pfs processes but that did not help. I must admit I am not very patient when it comes to computers. It may well be that given 10 minutes killing the process may have fixed it. The computer this happened to is only used by me so reboot is not an issue.

Sorry I was not much help,
-Dave

Re: Cannot pfs_umount anymore therefore cannot EJECT!!

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:30:08 GMT

Hi,

You probably might have tried all the options including killing the processes.

Reboot is only the option. This isn't a strange incident to me either.

-Sri

Re: Cannot pfs_umount anymore therefore cannot EJECT!!

Daniel Simard — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:43:30 GMT

Apparently, we cannot even manually Eject the CD. I don't understand why but could you tell me if the CD ROM is mounted, shouldn't you still be able to manually eject with a paper clip ???

Thanks