Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-29 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:33:34PM +0100, Iain Mac Donald wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 19:14, David Fokkema wrote: > > > If you are running Gnome you could try something like > > > gksu "/etc/init.d/fam stop" > > > umount the cd followed by > > > gksu "/etc/init.d/fam start" > > > > My broth

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 19:14, David Fokkema wrote: > > If you are running Gnome you could try something like > > gksu "/etc/init.d/fam stop" > > umount the cd followed by > > gksu "/etc/init.d/fam start" > > My brother has problems unmounting his zip drive. It is _always_ famd > which is bl

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:54:14PM +0100, Iain Mac Donald wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:23, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > man fuser > > man lsof > > > > IIRC: > > The commands above *might* mean you're getting logged out of X at times > > .. not being sure ... :) > > Most of the time is FAMD,

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Iain Mac Donald
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:23, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > IIRC: > lsof /dev/cdrom > or > fuser /dev/cdrom > > and then doing a > kill -s 9 > as root helps here. > Not being sure whether that's sane, safe, whatever. But it often helps > here. I often find it is because I am sitting in the /cdrom

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 06:52, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am using Debian/sid. Same here, on ppc ... :) > Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to > unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal: > > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > umount: /cdrom: device is busy [

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-22 Thread John van Spaandonk
On Saturday 22 May 2004 06:52, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am using Debian/sid. Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to > unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal: > > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > > But the fact is the cdrom is not bein

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:22:14AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am using Debian/sid. Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to > unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal: > > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > > But the fact is the cdr

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-21 Thread Graham Williams
Received Sat 22 May 2004 3:04pm +1000 from J.S.Sahambi: > I am using Debian/sid. Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to > unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal: > > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > > But the fact is the cdrom i

cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-21 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I am using Debian/sid. Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal: umount: /cdrom: device is busy umount: /cdrom: device is busy But the fact is the cdrom is not being used by any of my terminals or programs (as I have not used