Re: cdrom/floppy umount issue possible bug

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Hi:
> Forgive me if this issue has been addressed and I am overlooking it in
> the archive. My problem is when trying to either eject or unmount a
> floppy drive or cdrom, I receive an error that the device is busy. There
> is no activity on either the cdrom or floppy drive and no applications
> open using either device. I have tried, as both an unprivileged user and
> root)
> umount -n /mnt/floppy
> umount -r /mnt/floppy
> eject /dev/fd0

May be is fam. Fam is a change-file monitor. When you mount any device (
net, cdrom, floppy...) fam follows the path to get a list of files and is
status. May be fam is running when you wanna umount. To test: Try to
unmount, if resource is busy, as root do 'killall fam', and try to unmount
again.

HTH

Regards

David Ballester Montolio
Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
Kern Pharma, S.L.
www.kernpharma.com

GNU!






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