We encountered a problem on our Solaris 10 server. We were running an
oracle patch "precheck" and it started testing "site specific
libraries",
one of them was NFS server for volume management.

This is the error I received:

NFS Server for volume management (/vol) not responding

The patch just hung.  I notice that NFS server is not enabled to be
online by default under "svcs".  Can this be the cause ?  I used to
just do # cd /vol under Solaris 8.  What's the difference in Solaris 10
?  How could I resolve this issue ?

Also, I notice that mounting CD is not automatic under Solaris 10.
What command can I use to ensure that the CD will be mounted and
rejected.

Thanks,

Humphrey

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underh20 wrote:
>
> NFS Server for volume management (/vol) not responding
>
> The patch just hung.  I notice that NFS server is not enabled to be
> online by default under "svcs".  Can this be the cause ?  I used to
> just do # cd /vol under Solaris 8.  What's the difference in Solaris 10
> ?  How could I resolve this issue ?
>
> Also, I notice that mounting CD is not automatic under Solaris 10.
> What command can I use to ensure that the CD will be mounted and
> rejected.

Automatically mounting CDs and NFS mounting /vol are indirectly
related.

There used to be a "vold" deamon running under older versions of
Solaris.  I don't know if that's still available on 10 or it automatic
mounting has been automated without a deamon.

There is likely an entry for /vol in your automounter set-up.  Since
/vol is used to automatically mount CDROMs, that's the indirect
linkage.

It's NFS client side that you want turned off not server side.  Or
if client side has to be on, then server side needs to be turned on
and the appropriate /vol subdir exported/shared after it's mounted.

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