Vold failing to mount cdrom

A bit of a solaris newbie, HP is my main flavour of Unix. However... I have installed a new OS onto a Netra 100 - solaris 10 u 6 from scatch ( twice now )
I keep getting errors when trying to run the volfs stuff, the messgaes file tells me ...
Nov 14 11:38:42 falstaff /usr/sbin/vold[13484]: [ID 550042 daemon.error] mounting of "cdrom" failed
Nov 14 11:38:42 falstaff svc.startd[7]: [ID 748625 daemon.error] system/filesystem/volfs:default failed repeatedly: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)
svcs -xv shows...
svc:/system/filesystem/volfs:default (Volume Management filesystem)
State: maintenance since Fri Nov 14 11:38:42 2008
Reason: Restarting too quickly.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-L5
See: man -M /usr/man -s 7FS volfs
See: /var/svc/log/system-filesystem-volfs:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.
The log file shows
Fri Nov 14 11:38:41 2008 fatal: mounting of "cdrom" failed
[ Nov 14 11:38:41 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Nov 14 11:38:41 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Nov 14 11:38:41 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-volfs start") ]
[ Nov 14 11:38:42 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]
Fri Nov 14 11:38:42 2008 fatal: mounting of "cdrom" failed
[ Nov 14 11:38:42 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Nov 14 11:38:42 Executing stop method (:kill) ]
[ Nov 14 11:38:42 Restarting too quickly, changing state to maintenance ]
Now matter how many times I enable/disable/clear etc it never mounts.
I can mount the cdrom manually and its fine.
I have check vold.conf and rmmount.conf against a different server ( sol 10 u 3 ) and they are the same.
Any ideas pleaseeeeeeeeee ?
Thanks
Susana

I ran into the same problem today. I upgraded my Ultra 60 from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 U 6. The upgrade completely successfully and the system was able to read all the CDs (system not DVD capable). However, after the upgrade, I realized that I inadvertently deslected the frame buffer packages so I put CD 1 back into the system. The CD light came on and on ad nauseum and vold would not automount the CD (which it normally does to /cdrom/cdrom0).
Looking at the service log, I got similar messages to those in this thread. vold was dumping core on every restart (on my system, the service never disabled itself).
pstack /core showed something similar to:
# pstack vold.core
core 'vold.core' of 1206: /usr/sbin/vold -f /etc/vold.conf
----------------- lwp# 1 / thread# 1 --------------------
ff1c57cc __pollsys (ffbff828, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 8
ff161d24 poll (ffbff828, 3, ffffffff, ff232a00, 47800, 0) + 7c
0001832c ???????? (6, 1, 31000, 1, 1, ffbff830)
0001802c main (46c00, 31000, ffbff8c4, c, 31000, ffbff8cc) + a34
0001665c _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 108
----------------- lwp# 2 / thread# 2 --------------------
ff1c5560 ioctl (58c78, 8, b, 4, 2, ff034000) + c
ff1c49fc lwpstart (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
----------------- lwp# 3 / thread# 3 --------------------
fef71388 floppy_thread(), exit value = 0x00000000
** zombie (exited, not detached, not yet joined) **
----------------- lwp# 4 / thread# 4 --------------------
ff1c6194 doorreturn (0, 0, 0, 0, fefa1200, ff1f3700) + 10
ff0e0c30 door_create_func (0, feefc000, 0, 0, ff0e0c10, 0) + 20
ff1c49fc lwpstart (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
----------------- lwp# 5 / thread# 5 --------------------
ff1c4aa0 __lwp_park (728c8, 728d8, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 14
ff1beae8 cond_wait_queue (728c8, 728d8, 0, 0, 0, 80) + 28
ff1bef60 cond_wait_common (728c8, 728d8, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 298
ff1bf068 cond_wait (728c8, 728d8, 0, 1000, 0, 0) + 10
ff222a60 subscriber_event_handler (53c38, fedfc000, 0, 0, ff222a2c, 0) + 34
ff1c49fc lwpstart (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
----------------- lwp# 6 / thread# 6 --------------------
ff131d18 strlen (408450a5, 0, 0, 7e110, 600, 180) + 18
00028454 read_slices (7ca40, b, 7df40, fecefd34, 1, 5) + 114
000288c0 read_hsfs_partition (b, 46c00, 6d0000, 2c, 34400, 1010101) + 88
000280dc read_partition (7ca40, 341a4, 3, 34000, 34400, 9) + 30
00027010 create_top_partition (72988, 729cc, 72988, 7ca40, ffffffff, b) + 140
000265e0 ???????? (800052, feceff9c, c, 58c78, 72988, ffffffff)
00026a04 create_medium (800052, feceff9c, 20, 52, 47800, c) + 74
0002232c ???????? (5a278, 0, 0, 800052, 20, 33000)
By searching through sunsolve (requires contract access), I found Bug 6712352 which has a synopsis of:
Synopsis: duplicate partitions are not correctly counted by vold
It has shown up a fair amount of time ago and the bug shows that it may even go back to Solaris 8 & 9 updates.
There is currently no patch but the workaround for Solaris 10 is to disable the volfs service:
svcadm disable -t volfs
Then, you can manually mount the CD (or DVD) via:
mount -F hsfs /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /mnt
That worked for me and I was able to load my missing frame buffer packages
--maureen

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FYI, I tried using different cords and both USB 3.0 ports on my Retina MacBook Pro and both are self powered.
Thanks,
Chris

Fail to mount

for the past few days, I have been in search of a faster/easier bittorrent client than azureus. I had had some difficulty with it and downloaded something else. since that time when I try and download a new client, or even reinstall azureus:
1. I don't get the little download window that I used to get which is basically a list
2. when I try and open to install which ever program it may be,I get an error message. The two most common are: fail to mount, codec overrun
I'm not really sure what's going on. About the same time one day I turned on my computer to realize that it had reset itself. All the original applications where in the dock, and all my usual ones were gone. Also I am using firefox as my web browser, and that had also reset itself and started back at "starter page" meaning all my bookmarks and saved passwords are gone. And honestly I still can't get it back to where it goes to my personalized home page.
Can someone please tell me what I need to do so I can get my computer back?
Thank you in advance

I should also note, that most recently everything was reset (again) after attempting a file vault process, which numerous times has failed to finish and I end up having to shut down the computer manually.
Thought this might be useful
Thanks

[SOLVED] Arch failed to mount /boot

Hey there,
after my btrfs filesystem somehow got corrupted, so it would only mount my "/"-filesystem as read-only, I backed it up with rsync, recreated the partition and then transfered the data back. After that, I was unable to boot anymore with this error:
[1.593560] systemd-fsck[306]: fsck.fat 3.0.27 (2014-11-12)
[1.594292] systemd-fsck[306] /dev/sda1: 98 files, 43105/98304 clusters
Mounting boot...
[FAILED]Failed to mount /boot.
See "systemctl status boot.mount" for details
SystemD the prompted me with it's emergency mode, but this didn't react to any keyboard presses, so I couldn't check the exact error with sth. like journalctl -xb. I then booted a, today downloaded, Arch Live-CD and tried to access the logs via journalctl -b -D /var/log/journal/ didn't work out: It only had the logs from before the boot problem.
With a bit of googling I figured a way of fixing this could be chrooting in and reinstalling initramfs, typing chroot errored out with:
chroot: failed to run command /usr/bin/zsh: No such file or directory
I tried commenting out /boot in fstab, but at booting something [FAILED] with Load Kernel Modules and I instantly got prompted with a blank, black screen with a "_" blinking in the top left corner, like a normal console, expect any prompt of any kind was missing and it didn't react to my keystrokes, similiar to SystemD's emergency mode
So essentially two smaller problems with few google results are hindering me from solving my big problem.
Thanks for any help in advance,
Quanttek
Last edited by Quanttek (2015-05-26 09:48:21)

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Quanttek wrote:I use plain "chroot". "chroot --help" works, but not chroot itself. I also tried to rebuild the symbolic link from the normal lib -> /usr/lib to /lib/* -> /usr/lib/* and it didnt work
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … ing_chroot
Probably easier to use `arch-chroot` though:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … rch-chroot
Thanks. Using arch-chroot worked out. It is/was certainly no environment issue, I even tested it with both i386 and x86_64.
I used it to reinstall mkinitcpio and to update my system, so now on boot I dont get a failure on mounting /boot anymore, but I still have problems with Load Kernel Modules.
My screen now looks something like this: http://m.imgur.com/ATWHJoq
Again it's not reacting to any keystrokes. I'll get some sleep now and will look tomorrow into getting some information from the journal logs.

[Solved] Failed to mount /boot/efi

Hi,
Recently I've been having a lot of trouble starting Arch Linux. As in I can't. It starts off fine, but then whike it tries to mount my disks I get this problem:
systemd-fsck[159]: fsck.fat 3.0.23 (2013-10-15)
systemd-fsck[159]: /dev/sda5: 111 files, 6783/130048 clusters
[ OK ] Started File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/6AE1-65C8.
Mounting /boot/efi...
[ FAILED ] Failed to mount /boot/efi.
See 'systemctl status boot-efi.mount' for details.
[ DEPEND ] Dependency failed for Local File Systems.
Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" to try again
to boot into default mode.
This is the output of systemctl status boot-efi.mount:
boot-efi.mount - /boot/efi
Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2013-12-01 17:40:58 EST; 4min 16s ago
Where: /boot/efi
What: /dev/disk/by-uuid/6AE1-65C8
Process: 179 ExecMount=/bin/mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/6AE1-65C8 /boot/efi -t vfat -o rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro (code=exited, status=32)
Dec 01 17:40:58 jay-archlinux systemd[1]: boot-efi.mount mount process exited, code=exited status=32
Dec 01 17:40:58 jay-archlinux systemd[1]: Failed to mount /boot/efi
Dec 01 17:40:58 jay-archlinux systemd[1]: Unit boot-efi.mount entered failed state.
The output of mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/6AE1-65C8 /boot/efi -t vfat:
mount: unknown filesystem type: 'vfat'
(When I first started getting this it told me dosfstools wasn't installed. However I've since installed the latest version and it's made no difference.
I dual boot Arch Linux and Windows 8 on a laptop under UEFI, and have had this setup for about a year now. This problem seems like it may be associated with recent problems I've been having with windows 8 (Spontaneously restarting itself 2 or 3 times a day with a BSoD and "Kernel Data Inpage Error".) One time after such a restart I went to boot Arch Linux after the restart rather than Windows and got errors similar to the one I first posted, except that they were occurring with my Windows NTFS partitions which I mount in Arch Linux. After booting into Windows and restarting manually, the error just became what it is now. However I'm not sure if this was where the problem first began or not as I haven't used Arch Linux very often over the past few months.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on or how to fix it?
Thanks.
Last edited by jdgordon01 (2013-12-01 14:05:59)

pacman -Q linux
linux 3.11.6-1
uname -a
3.9.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 3 22:45:16 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
No idea how that's happened... I initially tried 'mkinitcpio -p linux' but it also did nothing.
EDIT: Turns out I must have updated at some point and forgotten a crucial step in manually copying the new files in /boot/ to /boot/efi/EFI/arch/ which is necessary when updating under UEFI systems. I updated again using the live USB/chrooting, manually copied everything that was needed and everything's working again!
Last edited by jdgordon01 (2013-12-01 14:05:35)

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