On Tuesday 04 April 2006 20:48, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: > On 4/5/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 18:54, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: > > > Error trying to open /dev/hdd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. > > > > There may be other problems, but this one suggests that something, > > probably automount, is grabbing the device. Make sure you have closed > > any file manager windows, and if a device icon has come onto the desktop, > > use it to umount the device. > > Thanks Anne, doing a umount on /dev/hdd solved the problem. > > This is weird though - shouldn't Fedora automagically do this thing for us? > I > > I don't recall ever having to do a manual umount on my burner device > whenever I had to to erase rewriteable media on a RHEL-clone like > CentOS. > I'm not exactly sure of the cause, but I have met this from time to time over the last couple of years. I suspect that the fast-changing scene of auto-mounting is responsible. ISTR that it happened at some stages in Mandriva, then disappeared at others. Anne
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