Am Mi, den 14.04.2004 schrieb J. Erik Hemdal um 14:45: > Anthony Thompson said: > > I have just made the change from Mandrake to Fedora Core 1 and Im having > > problems unmounting cdrom drive. > > Everytime i attempt to umount /mnt/cdrom or eject I get the error "cdrom > > busy". > > > > I am well aware this normally occurs if you are still using the cdrom > > drive. I spent 30mins browsing the fedora list archives but was able to > > get any ideas/solutions.. > > Yes. This happens on Fedora and also on RHL 8/9. I see it occasionally > and > do a lazy umount if it happens. > > umount -l (lowercase letter L) takes care of it for me. > > Some man pages seem to suggest that umount itself can cause the filesystem At me, a 'killall -HUP pam' solves the problem. Looks like the pam process accesses the cdrom. A 'umount -l' does it too. HTH, Greetz Dirk -- In 1983, David Lightman nearly destroyed the world with a IMSAI 8080. Imagine what you could do today.