pfs_mountd daemon dies?

[Rfinley]

I have an issue where the pfs_mountd deamon dies shortly after starting it. I'm simply trying to mount a SCSI cdrom drive. What sort of things should I be looking at?

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I give you some examples to mount a cdrom.

check the controller and scsi id of your cdrom in example i used c0t2d0

# ioscan -fnCdisk

-1- normal mount.# mount /dev/dsk/c0t2d0 /cdrom
to umount
# umount /cdrom
-2- mount cdrom's with long file names.
# mount -F cdfs -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c0t2d0 /cdrom
to umount
# umount /cdrom

-3- mount Rock Ridge cdroms.
check
# ps -ef | grep nfs
# ps -ef | grep mountd
# nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &
# nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &
# /usr/sbin/pfs_mount -t rrip -x unix /dev/dsk/c0t2d0 /cdrom
to umount
# /usr/sbin/pfs_umnount /cdrom

-4- skipp all above methodes and install a few patches.

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, PHCO_26449, and PHKL_26450 to have HP-UX recognize those file systems automatically on mount! For HP-UX 11i you need PHCO_25841, PHKL_26269 , and PHKL_25760.

No need thereafter to use -o cdfs to mount anymore, provided you enter the CD drive in /etc/fstab like this:

*

/dev/cd0 /cdrom cdfs ro,rr,noauto 0 0

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.