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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
