Vern W Heesch offered this little gem:
% I am running eW3.1 (beta) and am having a problem with the floppy. If I
% try to mount it from the terminal it tells me it is already mounted. I
% can cd to /mnt/floppy and see the files. If I click on the floppy icon
% on my desktop it tells me it is already mounted or busy. I can't umount
% it from the desktop icon because it doesn't have umount on the menu,
% it's still mount. If I try to umount from the terminal it says it cannot
% create link /etc/mtab~, perhaps there is a stale lock file?
%
% Can someone explain to me what the 'stale lock file' is all about, and
% maybe a solution to this? This happened before and I couldn't figure
% anything out so I rebooted. Would be nice if I could fix this without
% having to reboot.
Hmm. Have a look /in /var/lock for the offending file. Look also
for a dot file in /etc. Is there already an /etc/mtab~ owned by
another user? What happens if you simply log out all users?
Kurt
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