CD Unmounting Help!!

[John Wendel]

Ben Stringer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 06:01 -0600, William_King at Dell.com wrote:
> 
>>I'm unable to unmount any cd in the last couple of days.  CD's auto or
>>manually mount with no problems.  But when I try to unmount get
>>message device is busy.  I've gone through processes running in KDE
>>SystemGuard and killed all process showing accessing /dev/hdc, even
>>killed konquerer.  I've even changed FSTAB to noauto,ro,users, but to
>>no avail.
> 
> 
> Hi William,
> 
> Have you used "fuser /dev/hdc" to locate processes accessing the cd? In
> the past I have had problems unmounting CDs due to "fam" helpfully
> monitoring the mount. Killing fam as root allows the CD to be unmounted
> and ejected.
> 
> Cheers, Ben
> 
> Ben Stringer ===== ben at burbong.com
> ==================================
> 
> 

In this case, you can kill "gam_server". You don't need to be root. 
Looks like a bug that came with the last gamin update.

Regards,

John