There was probably a file locked open on the device. You may be able to
lazy unmount but you may loose data.
`unmount -l /dev` IIR
You can find the locked file with `lsof /dev`

Note: I mostly see this on NFS mounts.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:39 PM logical american <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello:
>
> Recently one of my commands
>
> [linux ~]$ sudo umount /dev/sdd2
>
> failed to return back to the command prompt, and all subsequent sudo
> commands failed similarly.  Only by rebooting the system was I able to
> get the "sudo umount /dev" command working again.
>
> I am running 64 bit openSuse v13.2 linux kept to current revision level.
>
> Any ideas on why umount is not returning to the CLI prompt?
>
> Randall
>
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