Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux
Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux
Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux
Situation
With Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) and Novell Storage Services (NSS), NSS uses a Virtual File System (VFS) which acts as a /proc type file system, and is used to interact with the NSS kernel modules.
During a shutdown sequence of the server, the following message is observed :
During a shutdown sequence of the server, the following message is observed :
Could not find /_admin in mtabThe reported error is cosmetic of nature.
umount: /_admin: not mounted
Oops: umount failed :-( -- trying to remount readonly...
extra sync...
... hope now it's ok to reboot.
Resolution
The /etc/init.d/boot.localfs script has been fixed to properly handle an already unmounted file system.
Cause
The root cause for this error was the system attempting to unmount this nssadmin file system twice.
The first time this was unmounted successfully, where during the second attempt the reported error was displayed.
The first time this was unmounted successfully, where during the second attempt the reported error was displayed.