I have this same problem. At least for me what happens is that the process "fam" keeps the cdrom busy. I can only umount it after killing this process. Type "/sbin/fuser -mv /mnt/cdrom" to check if this is your case... Does anybody know what is the purpose of this process? Thanks Gustavo On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:52, damon fister wrote: > Hello all, > > 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 > all to no avail. There are no hung processes and no errors in > /var/log/messages. I am in run level 5 using gnome 2.4.0 and receive the > errors from both nautilus (when right clicking on the icon for either > the floppy or cdrom) and from the command line. Logging off and logging > on does not solve the problem and can only unmount the filesystem by > rebooting. /etc/fstab looks normal, nothing is setup in autofs. The > only package changes that have been made since i started having these > problems were the released updates from the fedora core site. > I am running FC1 2.4.22-1.2129.nptl kernel on a P4 2.66 processor, Intel > Motherboard 845GEBV2 running the latest BIOS update with 512MB of ram. > The CD-Rom is a Creative Labs 52x cd rom and the floppy drive is TEAC. I > thank you all for your help in advance > > Damon Fister > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
