>>>>> "Percy" == Percy Stoehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> for my cdrom of 5 seconds. Some processes are using my cdrom and
> sometimes it happens that the cdrom keeps being locked. I dont know why
> this happened, and i couldnt reproduce it. Maybe it is fixed. Unmounting
> doesnt work cause unmount believes the path is being used ("busy"), but
> fuser outputs no users. Restarting of the daemon fails. The daemon was
> killed but could not be started again, cause the system believes the
> directory is mounted by the old daemon. The only way get my cdrom out,
> is rebooting the system ;). And i really hate rebooting my system. And i
> would have been really happy if a were able to start a new daemon taking
> over the control of the old one.
Note that the example is not a good reason to ask autofs to be killable.
In your case, the problem is that the submount (created by mount via autofs)
is somehow screwed up. No matter how many times you kill/restart autofs,
you will not solve this problem.
Stefan
