Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-15 Thread Simon Breden
No probs, glad it worked for you too. It gave me quite a fright too when it happened :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-15 Thread Simon Breden
Sorry, I don't know what happened, but it seems like I was not subscribed to receive replies for this thread so I never saw people's replies to my original post... user error probably :) jone, I think you hit the nail on the head: I *do* seem to remember issuing a 'zfs mount -a' at some point,

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-12 Thread Kurt Schreiner
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:04:35PM +0200, Arthur Bundo wrote: > I am sorry but it says it is empty 2, it doesn't say it is busy. > Hm, maybe autofs is in the play somewhere, having put his hands on /home? Sorry, coming late to this thread, so this may be irrelevant or ruled out before... But IIRC,

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-12 Thread Arthur Bundo
I am sorry but it says it is empty 2, it doesn't say it is busy. This is so unreal, I have no idea how to reproduce this bug, i know i just upgraded to 111b and i am sorry i am so ignorant and don't know how to help you guys to solve this bug. Best regards on your wonderful work and efforts. A

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-12 Thread Richard Elling
Arthur Bundo wrote: what does the present /export/home folder contain ? contains nothing, it is empty I'm not convinced. If the directory is empty then the link count will be 2 (. and ..). For example, $ mkdir /tmp/empty

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-11 Thread Arthur Bundo
> what does the present /export/home folder contain ? contains nothing, it is empty -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-10 Thread Jonathan Edwards
i've seen a problem where periodically a 'zfs mount -a' and sometimes a 'zpool import ' can create what appears to be a race condition on nested mounts .. that is .. let's say that i have: FS mountpoint pool/export pool/fs1

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-10 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Arthur Bundo wrote: > I want to thank you for your quick response. > > Regarding the learning curve, i really don't have enough time to go in deep > of the things anymore, i just like the stability of the Solaris platform in > general, and i used it at home years

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-10 Thread Arthur Bundo
I want to thank you for your quick response. Regarding the learning curve, i really don't have enough time to go in deep of the things anymore, i just like the stability of the Solaris platform in general, and i used it at home years from now. All i need now is some out of the box installation

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-10 Thread Richard Elling
Something is bothering me about this thread. It seems to me that if the system provides an error message such as "cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty" then the first plan of action should be to look and see what is there, no? The issue of overlaying mounts has existed for about 3

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-10 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Arthur Bundo wrote: > I cant login as root anymore with su , as x user i cant execute almost > anything as sys to do some maintenance , only in single mode at boot, After you log on as the use x (let's call this user "arthur"), see if you can run "pfexec su -" and

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-09 Thread Arthur Bundo
I cant login as root anymore with su , as x user i cant execute almost anything as sys to do some maintenance , only in single mode at boot, name of system is "unknown" now, just got tired of this thing now, i don't want to learn solaris, dont have time for that , just wanted to use it since the

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Arthur Bundo wrote: > i reread my post, it makes dizzy even me, right. > > the problem i have is this, i had a user x with home directory /export/home/x > . > some days before i upgraded from 101 to 111, and on nautilus i tried to make > snapshots of / and /export

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-09 Thread Arthur Bundo
i reread my post, it makes dizzy even me, right. the problem i have is this, i had a user x with home directory /export/home/x . some days before i upgraded from 101 to 111, and on nautilus i tried to make snapshots of / and /export/home/x and when i reboot some time after i couldn't login norma

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-09 Thread Miles Nordin
> "ab" == Arthur Bundo writes: ab> the only way i can login is by login as x ab> at terminal without gnome then i pfexec gdm login to the console. Do not use X11 at all. nautilus is completely out of the question I'm afraid. After you login can you do something like: exec pfexec

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-09 Thread James C. McPherson
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Arthur Bundo wrote: > >>> rmdir /export/home/x > > but i need the /export/home/x folder, in fact from the whole opensolaris > folders this is the only one i need really, i just cant get it mounted > normally at boot and as user x it drops me to a root

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-09 Thread Arthur Bundo
>>> rmdir /export/home/x but i need the /export/home/x folder, in fact from the whole opensolaris folders this is the only one i need really, i just cant get it mounted normally at boot and as user x it drops me to a root account folder with no contents and in failsafe terminal only. i cant lo

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-08 Thread Miles Nordin
> "ab" == Arthur Bundo writes: ab> I have a "/export/home/x" directory something like: umount /export/home/x rmdir /export/home/x rmdir /export/home <-- not needed. but it should give no error if /export/home is really empty, so it's a good

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-08 Thread Arthur Bundo
I have a "/export/home/x" directory (my home directory) which can not be mounted during boot time and i have a lot of stuff there, too critical for me to experiment there, i can login at failsafe session and i open nautilus as root and on the snapshots on / i see no export/home/x but on export/

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-07 Thread Ian Collins
Arthur Bundo wrote: same history happened to me on build 111 and i still don't know what to do What do you see in /tank/home? Can you do an overlay mount, zfs mount -O tank/home? -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org ht

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot mount '/tank/home': directory is not empty

2009-06-07 Thread Arthur Bundo
same history happened to me on build 111 and i still don't know what to do -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss