On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:59 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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. > > It's the way my machine works, and umount is what I've had to > do. I use FC2. ---- this may come as a shock to you but user space mounting of devices, udev and the dropping of udevfs has substantially changed since FC-2. Craig
