On Mon, April 30, 2007 2:39 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 4/30/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just announced on Steer (in response to a post about the new Kplug >> server -- there was a connection, honest) that my laptop was on the >> fritz >> again, this time on the HD's side. >> >> I'm posting to say that that the announcement of its death appears to >> have >> been premature. Using a rescue disk, I poked around and found that >> fsck.ext3 was happy with all of my partitions. The /home partition was >> reporting that it was in use when I treid to umount it, which was >> curious >> seeing as how I was at user level 1. > > > It is an unfortunate situation that there are some commonly used > programs that are compiled to use dynamic libraries from /usr/lib. So > you can't unmount /usr while they are running. See if Bash is one of > them. > $ ldd $(which bash) > > Of course you said /home not /usr. But the principle still applies. > When you were at level 1, were you logged in as root or as yourself? > > carl >
Root. But I'm thinking all is OK now. ... until the next crisis. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
