Quoth Frank Batschulat on Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 08:43:49PM +0200: > friends, was there a change to SMF and network services resently > in a patch ?
Secure By Default ( http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/sbd ) was backported recently. I don't know whether it's available in a patch yet, but it shouldn't have changed anything on an upgrade anyway. > I noticed today that I can no longer mount > cdrom's anymore, after recongnizing that vold was'nt running > anymore, I started it by hand and got this: By 'starting it by hand', do you mean launching vold from the command line? > # volcheck > NFS server for volume management (/vol) not responding still trying This seems strange since /vol should be controlled by vold and should have nothing to do with NFS. > now looking into svcs -av suprisingly I found lots of network > releated stuff including the nfs server disabled, the list is below: The NFS server should be controlled by whether or not you have any shares. If you have shares, but the NFS server is disabled, then that is a bug in the NFS code. Quoth Frank Batschulat on Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:14:00AM -0700: > fwiw, I fixed my problem by manually enabling the volfs service: > svc:/system/filesystem/volfs:default > > thought it is still a mystery how it got disabled in the first place. > also I'd have appreciated if vold would have indicated some > error/messages in the /var/adm/vold.log, the volfs SMF logfile > I eventually located just told me "disabled" - nice - I already known > that - but when and how ? I believe there is an RFE for this, but I can't find it right now. David
