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ONTAP Mediator crashes and fails to start mediator-scst.service

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4/28/2025, 2:28:04 PM

Applies to

  • ONTAP Mediator
  • Metrocluster-IP
  • Cent OS
  • RHEL

Issue

Mediator fails to start the scst service with following error message:

May 23 11:50:27 bovprodwemediator001 kernel: [15767]: dev_vdisk: ***ERROR***: opening /mnt/iscsi_space/mb.63b89d7d-6cce-11ed-b879-d039ea9e40a8:d04ee6db-6ccf-11ed-aac3-d039ea9e418a:1.0 failed: -2
May 23 11:50:27 bovprodwemediator001 kernel: [15767]: scst: ***ERROR***: New device handler's vdisk_fileio attach() failed: -2

mediator-scst.service failed to start.
Dec 10 14:30:29 mediator01 systemd[1]: Starting ONTAP Mediator...
Dec 10 14:30:33 mediator01 ontap_mediator[1041]: mount: /opt/netapp/lib/ontap_mediator/log: wrong fs type, bad >
Dec 10 14:30:35 mediator01 ontap_mediator[1179]: [uWSGI] getting INI configuration from /opt/netapp/lib/ontap_m>
Dec 10 14:31:59 mediator01 systemd[1]: Started ONTAP Mediator.
[admin@mediator01 ~]$ systemctl status mediator-scst
× mediator-scst.service
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mediator-scst.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2024-12-10 14:30:31 HKT; 20min ago
    Process: 1141 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/scst start (code=exited, status=5)
        CPU: 58ms

Dec 10 14:30:31 mediator01 systemd[1]: mediator-scst.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Dec 10 14:30:31 mediator01 systemd[1]: Stopped mediator-scst.service.
Dec 10 14:30:31 mediator01 systemd[1]: mediator-scst.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Dec 10 14:30:31 mediator01 systemd[1]: mediator-scst.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 10 14:30:31 mediator01 systemd[1]: Failed to start mediator-scst.service.

 

 

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