On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:29 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Di, den 01.03.2005 schrieb Gerhard Magnus um 23:02:
> I'm running FC3 with a KDE desktop. Recently, I've been having problems
> unmounting floppy disks. Regardless of whether I use the right mouse
> button on the "Floppy" icon to unmount the disk or use the command
> "umount /media/floppy" in a terminal window I get the message:
> "/media/floppy device is busy" twice. (Why twice anyway?) I've
tried
> using the command "fuser /dev/fd0" to locate processes accessing the
> disk and this gives me a pid -- but when I try killing the process a new
> pid replaces it. The only way out seems to be rebooting... which just
> doesn't seem right!
>
> Is this a bug or something "hanging on" in my system? Does anyone have
> a suggestion for troubleshooting this further?
Would you mind to tell us which PID you are killing? I mean which
respawning service it is which's PID you kill.
Alexander
Alexander,
I have been having a similar problem with CDs as well
Recently I used lsof and found 4 processes of gamin running
on /media/cdrom that I killed and was then able to unmount/eject the CD.
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