On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:58 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:54, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
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>>Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
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> There may be other problems, but this one suggests that something, probably
> automount, is grabbing the device. Make sure you have closed any file
> manager windows, and if a device icon has come onto the desktop, use it to
> umount the device.
Erm, not on my machine. I have to use umount from a CLI. Using
the desktop icon results in the disc being ejected.
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which would probably work because a program such as K3b would call for
it to be inserted and not mount such a disk but rather perform whatever
is needed to erase and start writing.
Craig