For some reason, the command "lsof | grep /mnt/cdrom ." didn't produce any results. No error, nothing. I looked at the man page for lsof but it didn't seem to have anything to say about locating run-away processes. I also took a look at my running processes and couldn't find anything suspicious.
The damn CD-ROM is still going. I was able to successfully run umount /mnt/cdrom. But, of course, I can't remount it because "the device is busy". I'd really like to find out why this happens and how to recover from it without a reboot. It happens quite often with old or burned CDs, and it's a problem I've had with 4 different CD-ROMs on 4 different distros of Linux. On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 02:38, Wladimir Foo wrote: > > I have two terrible CD-ROMs and a lot of shady CDs. Sometimes I'll put > > one in the drive and Linux will fail to read it properly. Sometimes > > this means I just can't read the disk. Other times it means that the > > damn drive light stays on and the disk stays mounted and "busy" until I > > reboot the frickin PC. > > > > As Ray mentioned earlier, it would be easier to come up with a possible remedy > if we knew what you were doing. But, here's a something else that might help. > Try using lsof: > > lsof | grep /mnt/cdrom . > > lsof will output the program(s) that is(are) using resources on /mnt/cdrom. > Now simply quit (or kill those programs) and you should be able to unmount > the cdrom drive. > > -- > http://www.linuxvoodoo.com > perl -le '$_="75>42833<33.=3?,13406577073890:;90833<330690<3!!";tr[0-?][ > YXOUIWLVETHDCNM];print' > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- Regards, Bryan Simmons =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it". ---Mark Twain =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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