Re: [Nolug] Free loop device problem

Well, you going to have to unload the module ... if you can't figure out
what's using it, then you'll have to reboot ... (sorry) then reload it with
the options you want ...

You might get some mileage out of just stopping every running daemon and as
many processes as you can on the machine and trying to unload it then.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wimprine, Thomas" <twimprine@stei.com>
To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: RE: [Nolug] Free loop device problem

> Everything is unmounted and it's not setting the loop devices free.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim [mailto:tpk@23rdward.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:03 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Free loop device problem
>
>
> It sounds like you ran into the 8 limit ... and automount was the only
thing
> letting you mount all those images ... just unmount everything, and reload
> the loop module with the options someone else suggested here (actually I
> wasn't aware it took that argument at load time, I always though you had
to
> alter loop.c in the kernel source).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wimprine, Thomas" <twimprine@stei.com>
> To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:29 AM
> Subject: RE: [Nolug] Free loop device problem
>
>
> > I have ~20 CDs that it's serving and I don't want to keep them all
loaded
> > all the time, so I'm using the automount to handle it. Also I add/remove
> > cd's failrly regularly so it's real easy to make the new image and
> recreate
> > the link that mounts it. The lsmod reports:
> > Module Size Used by Not tainted
> > nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean)
> > loop 12888 8 (autoclean)
> > autofs 13700 1 (autoclean)
> >
> > ps -A | grep loop
> > 16245 ? 00:00:00 loop1
> > 19962 ? 00:00:00 loop2
> > 20719 ? 00:00:00 loop3
> > 20974 ? 00:00:00 loop4
> > 21623 ? 00:00:00 loop5
> > 22342 ? 00:00:00 loop6
> > 22491 ? 00:00:00 loop7
> > 23421 ? 00:00:00 loop0
> >
> > I've tried to kill -9 and they won't die also if I rmmod loop it says
it's
> > busy and can't unload.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: -ray [mailto:ray@ops.selu.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:45 AM
> > To: 'nolug@joeykelly.net'
> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Free loop device problem
> >
> >
> >
> > do an lsmod and make sure the loop module is still loaded. if not,
insmod
> > loop. also how many isos are you mounting? i think 16 is sometimes the
> > default... add to /etc/modules.conf
> >
> > options loop max_loop=32
> >
> > or whatever max you want. you can also reload the module and specify
> > max_loop if you don't want to reboot.
> >
> > automount is gas...is it really needed?
> >
> > -ray
> > --
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org
> > Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University
> > IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using my RH 8.0 system as a CDrom server. It's been working great
> for
> > > the past few months and as a matter of fact management has been
> impressed
> > > that I haven't needed to reboot the system for awhile. However now
it's
> > not
> > > working and I'm getting the following errors. Does anyone have any
> ideas?
> > > Since the system being available and working w/o a reboot for so long
I
> > > would like to avoid it if possible.
> > >
> > > Error: /var/log/messages
> > > Mar 10 10:07:19 lajeffelx01 automount[26381]: mount(generic): failed
to
> > > mount /usr/local/isoimages/NT4sp6a.iso (type iso9660) on
> > > /mnt/isosrv_auto/NT4sp6a
> > > Mar 10 10:07:21 lajeffelx01 automount[26346]: attempting to mount
entry
> > > /mnt/isosrv_auto/NT4sp6a
> > > Mar 10 10:07:21 lajeffelx01 automount[26383]: >> mount: could not find
> any
> > > free loop device
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Thomas
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