[plug] umount fails [UNCLASSIFIED]

Alex Nordstrom alexander.nordstrom at tpg.com.au
Tue Nov 30 17:03:13 WST 2004


On Tuesday, 30 Nov 2004 16:17, Clark Julian wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:34 Jim Householder wrote:
> > 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. 
> 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.

I had similar issues with earlier versions of KDE as well, the culprit 
usually being the file alteration monitor daemon, famd. Restarting it 
with '/etc/init.d/fam restart' usually realeased the device.

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