Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 20:48, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing
Lists) wrote:
>On 4/5/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:54, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
wrote:
>>>Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second.
>>
>>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.
>
>Thanks Anne, doing a umount on /dev/hdd solved the problem.
>
>This is weird though - shouldn't Fedora automagically do this thing for us?
>I
>
>I don't recall ever having to do a manual umount on my burner device
>whenever I had to to erase rewriteable media on a RHEL-clone like
>CentOS.
>
I'm not exactly sure of the cause, but I have met this from time to time over
the last couple of years. I suspect that the fast-changing scene of
auto-mounting is responsible. ISTR that it happened at some stages in
Mandriva, then disappeared at others.
It's the way my machine works, and umount is what I've had to
do. I use FC2.
Mike
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