[plug] umount fails [UNCLASSIFIED]

[Clark Julian]

I've noticed something similar. (Also while using konqueror, though
usually I've just tripped up and left a terminal logged in somewhere
like /mnt/cdrom/blah\)

When you close the konqueror window, do you still get the busy message,
or will it not release the drive until those processes end?

Perhaps disabling automounting may help?

Otherwise.. I think that you can do a forced umount (try man mount :)
which waits for the process to become free and unmounts at that moment.
Not sure if you can then eject though.

IIRC I noticed this more so while using kde3.2 I'm using 3.3 now, and
haven't noticed it in a long while (ie, I've only been unable to umount
because of the terminal issue that I mentioned above.


HTH

Julian


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au
[mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Jim Householder
Sent: Tuesday, 30 November 2004 3:34 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] umount fails

Hi

When I insert a CD in the drive it gets mounted automatically.  However
just as likely as not when I am done with it I cannot umount it.  I (and
root) get a busy message.  ps shows the following:

jim     3187  0.0  1.5 31772 16348 ?       S    14:50   0:00 kdeinit:
kio_devices devices /tmp/ksocket-attic/klauncher
jim     3191  0.7  2.6 37780 26912 ?       S    14:50   0:02 kdeinit:
konqueror -mimetype inode/directory devices:/dev
jim     3195  0.0  1.6 32144 16732 ?       S    14:50   0:00 kdeinit:
kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-attic/klauncher4fcrVa
jim     3204  0.0  2.0 32968 20892 ?       S    14:52   0:00 kdeinit:
kio_uiserver
jim     3205  0.0  1.5 30984 16348 ?       S    14:52   0:00 kdeinit:
kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-attic/klauncher4fcrVa

As far as I know I have closed all programs that I used to look at the
CD.  I have to manually kill the processes above in order to umount the
CD.  They do not go away when I close the konqueror window.

I do not see any filesystem related error messages in /var/log/*.
Any idea where the problem is?  I'm using MDK 10.0 and kde 3.2.

The S state indicates the processes are waiting on some event.  How do I
find out what it is?

TIA
Jim
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