I have a 7 node virtualized RHEL5.3 cluster. All nodes mount mulitple gfs filesystems. One node only only of the file systems won't mount. I know (from a previous incident) that rebooting the node will clear the problem. Below is some information, I'd appreciate any help to resolve this without rebooting the node. [root@rdccluster2-5 ~]# umount /decennial/ umount: /decennial/: not mounted [root@rdccluster2-5 ~]# mount /decennial /sbin/mount.gfs: fs is being unmounted /sbin/mount.gfs: error mounting lockproto lock_dlm [root@rdccluster2-5 ~]# strace /decennial ...snip lstat("/etc/mtab", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1817, ...}) = 0 readlink("/decennial", 0x7fff43151700, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) umask(077) = 022 open("/etc/fstab", O_RDONLY) = 3 umask(022) = 077 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1695, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2ab read(3, "/dev/vgrp00/Root / "..., 4096) = 1695 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x2abd6af59000, 4096) = 0 stat("/sbin/mount.gfs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=41968, ...}) = 0 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, chil wait4(-1, /sbin/mount.gfs: fs is being unmounted /sbin/mount.gfs: error mounting lockproto lock_dlm [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 1}], 0, NULL) = 22646 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- exit_group(1) = ? [root@rdccluster2-5 ~]# >From /var/log/messages Feb 5 09:18:39 rdccluster2-5 gfs_controld[2862]: mount: reject mount due to unmount Feb 5 09:19:00 rdccluster2-5 gfs_controld[2862]: mount: reject mount due to unmount --Leo -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster