Can't eject oracle cd

[Masaki Birchmier]

Installing an oracle procuct via CD's on HP-UX 11.00 and can't seem to eject disk 1.
Mounted cd with
# nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd&
# nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd&
# /usr/sbin/pfs_mount -t rrip -x unix /dev/dsk/c3t2d0 /cdrom

I am not sitting at the /cdrom prompt on any of the shells and I can umount /cdrom just fine, but when I push the eject button nothing happens. (there is no manual eject pinhole either)

ps -ef|grep cdrom returns nothing.
fuser -cu /cdrom, returns file system not mounted.

Masaki

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

Kill the pfs_mount processess

Then you should be able to eject.

BTW:

Do not use pfs_mount!. Install the Rock-Ridge extension patches instead and never worry about these problems. For HP-UX 11.00 you will need forget all about PFS and install PHKL_26448 (now superceded by PHKL_28060), PHCO_26449, and PHKL_26450 to have HP-UX recognize those file systems automatically on mount! For HP-UX 11.11 (11i) you need PHCO_25841, PHKL_26269, and PHKL_25760 (now superceded by PHKL_28025).

Installation of patches requires a reboot.

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x autoselect_patches=TRUE -x patch_match_target=TRUE -x patch_filter=*
.* -s server25:/var/software/hp/rockridge @`hostname`


To mount a Rockridge CD (instead of using pfs_mount):

mount -F cdfs -o ro,rr,noauto /dev/cdrom /cdrom

To unmount:

umount /cdrom

To share out the cd over NFS:

exportfs -i -o ro,anon=0 /cdrom

On remote:

mount -F nfs sha1:/cdrom /zmnt


Note: client server does NOT need to have Rock Ridge patches installed to access the cdrom remotely.


Rgds...Geoff

[Rick Garland]

Have you tried the pfs_umount command?

If that doesn't work, kill all pfs related processes.

[Mel Burslan]

Most probably eject button of your CDROM drive has gone bad and needs to be replaced. But if you are able to afford shutting down your system and rebooting, OS may release the hold on the CDROM if this is the case.

But again more than likely, the eject button may have gine bad if everything else is fine with the CDROM reader.

[Masaki Birchmier]

Killing the pfs processes allowed me to eject, the alternate method of mounting rockridge worked as well, thanks for your input!

[Pradeep_29]

After killing pfs processes you might need to reboot the machine to use pfs mount.

Never use umount when mounted with pfs_mount. Use only pfs_umount.