RE: [Nolug] Free loop device problem

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:54, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:
> Everything is unmounted and it's not setting the loop devices free.

Have you shut down the automount daemon, and rmmod'd autoclean?

> -----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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