[(Re)-SUMMARY] Can't umount optical disk (Solaris 7)

From: foster@bial1.ucsd.edu
Date: Thu Apr 22 1999 - 18:08:03 CDT


> This problem is urgent! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> System: SunOS <host> 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
>
> Optical Drive: Pinnacle Micro Apex 4.6GB
>
>
> Problem:
>
> We cannot unmount an optical disk!
>
> # umount /mnt/pmo
> umount: /mnt/pmo busy

This is a followup to my "Almost" SUMMARY posted yesterday. To summarize,
many had suggested using LSOF, FUSER, killing NFS and volume manager daemons
and trying the unmount, but nothing worked.

Then one kind soul noted that if the volume is shared then I may need
to unshare it before unmounting (thanks to Kelly McDonald!). This indeed
is the case, but I am a bit confused because we have been mounting-and-
sharing, and then unmounting, optical disks under Solaris 2.3 thru 2.6
for years, without ever having to unshare the disk first (and in fact
it remains "shared" in the /etc/dfs/sharetab file after being unmounted).
Surely it is cleaner to unshare it before unmounting it, but I'm wondering
why this wasn't enforced before?

Is this something new to Solaris 7?

Thanks for everyone's suggestions!

Dave Foster

>
> LSOF utility claims that there are no processes having open files at
> the mount point:
>
> lsof /mnt/pmo
> <nothing>
>
> Nothing appears to allow the disk to be unmounted short of a reboot.
>
> We were using this drive with a Solaris 2.6 system with no problems.
> Is this a problem with Solaris 7, and is there a patch for it?
>
> Thanks. Summary to follow.
>
> Dave Foster
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> David S. Foster Univ. of California, San Diego
> Programmer/Analyst Brain Image Analysis Laboratory
> foster@bial1.ucsd.edu Department of Psychiatry
> (619) 622-5892 8950 Via La Jolla Drive, Suite 2240
> La Jolla, CA 92037
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    David S. Foster Univ. of California, San Diego
     Programmer/Analyst Brain Image Analysis Laboratory
     foster@bial1.ucsd.edu Department of Psychiatry
     (619) 622-5892 8950 Via La Jolla Drive, Suite 2240
                            La Jolla, CA 92037
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