Cannot kill a cdrom process

[TG1]

We're running AIX 5.2 ML2 and it looks like we have a bad cd in the cdrom. I tried killing the running process with kill -9. no help. If I run fuser /cdrom, no pid comes back. I'm just trying to eject the cd. What can I do short of rebooting the node?

 

[hirschaj]

did you try unmounting it?


Jim Hirschauer

http://www.aixexpert.com

 

[CrystalWizard]

Nothing. if the process is hung so baddly that kill -9 won't kill it, then you'll need to turn the machine (lpar) off in order to free it.

 

[RodKnowlton]

Try:

fuser -kxuc /cdrom

As root, of course.

Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+

 

[hirschaj]

Sometimes you need to run the fuser command on the actual device also....

fuser -kxuc /dev/cd0


Jim Hirschauer

http://www.aixexpert.com

 

[TG1]

Thanks - that did the trick
fuser -kxuc /cdrom

I needed to wait about 2 minutes and then it killed the process. It turns out that there was a smudge on the cdrom, I wiped it off and tried again and all is well. Go figure.......
Thanks for all the help