I don't have lsof on my system.
Perhaps you do not either.
HTH, Chuck
Bryan Simmons wrote:
>
> 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'
> >
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>
> Bryan Simmons
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