Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread perryh
Warren Block wrote: > lsof reports nothing open on either the mountpoint or the device. > > fstat blames gam_server: > > % fstat /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/ > USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME > wblock gam_server 1409 776 /usr/home/wblock/D

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread John R. Levine
... The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. I that case, shouldn't lsof(8) have reported something? Yes. It always did for me. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Robert wrote: On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 - John Levine wrote: [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy Try umount -f The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you mi

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread perryh
John Levine wrote: > >> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash > >> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy > > ... The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully > has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions > about it. I that case, shouldn't lsof(

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Tim Dunphy
> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash > umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy > [robert@dell64] ~> umount /dev/da6s1 >umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy have you tried lazy unmount? umount -l /dev/da6s1 if you have root access you should su/sudo to that be

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 03/12/11 09:51, Chris Brennan wrote: 'umount -f' is dangerous, while it worked in your case, truly, make sure you don't have any open files in the future, just to ensure no loss of files or filesytem corruption Run sync before umount -f to flush write caches. Later, Jason __

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread John Levine
>> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash >> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy Try umount -f The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Pe

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Robert wrote: On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 - > John Levine wrote: > > > >> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash > > >> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy > > > > Try umount -f > > > > The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfull

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 - John Levine wrote: > >> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash > >> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy > > Try umount -f > > The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the > device open just in case you might want to ask ques

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:48:40 -0800 Robert wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:35:25 -0500 > Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert > > wrote: > > > > Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and > > then > > > tried to umount the drive. I did not

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:35:25 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert wrote: > > Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and then > > tried to umount the drive. I did not access it other than the "ls" > > command. > > > > [robert@dell64] ~> lso

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert wrote: Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and then > tried to umount the drive. I did not access it other than the "ls" > command. > > [robert@dell64] ~> lsof Flash > [robert@dell64] ~> lsof /dev/da6s1 > [robert@dell64] ~> > [rob

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:26:00 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Robert wrote: > > Greetings > > > > On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am > > unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have t

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Robert wrote: Greetings > > On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am > unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have tried both > Fat32 and UFS formatted drives. I have tried with and without HAL > en

Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
Greetings On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have tried both Fat32 and UFS formatted drives. I have tried with and without HAL enabled. I am running with all ports up to date and the latest XFCE4. This

Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

2004-10-13 Thread Randy Grafton
message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. If I do the umont from KDE I get the same error message. What I'm doing wrong?? Thank you for all the help. Laszlo --lantal ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

2004-10-13 Thread Mike Jeays
> I get this error message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. > If I do the umont from KDE I get the same error message. > What I'm doing wrong?? > > Thank you for all the help. > > Laszlo > > > --lantal > ___ >

Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

2004-10-13 Thread terry tyson
p cds and I type #umount /cdrom > I get this error message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. > If I do the umont from KDE I get the same error message. > What I'm doing wrong?? > > Thank you for all the help. > > Laszlo Try # umount /dev/acd0c HTH -- Terry

Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

2004-10-13 Thread W. D.
At 13:22 10/13/2004, Laszlo Antal wrote: >Hi, > >I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed. >When I mount the cdrom with #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom >everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything >But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom >I get this erro

Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

2004-10-13 Thread Eric Crist
/etc/fstab, and then just use: # mount /cdrom everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom I get this error message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. If I do the umont from KDE I get the same error message. What I&#

Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

2004-10-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
unt /cdrom > everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything > But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom > I get this error message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. > If I do the umont from KDE I get the same error message. > What I'm doing wrong

Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

2004-10-13 Thread Laszlo Antal
Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed. When I mount the cdrom with #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom I get this error message:: Unable to umount /cdrom, Device is busy. If I do the umont