unmounting floppies
Gerhard Magnus
magnus at agora.rdrop.com
Wed Mar 2 00:30:00 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:29 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 01.03.2005 schrieb Gerhard Magnus um 23:02:
>
> > I'm running FC3 with a KDE desktop. Recently, I've been having problems
> > unmounting floppy disks. Regardless of whether I use the right mouse
> > button on the "Floppy" icon to unmount the disk or use the command
> > "umount /media/floppy" in a terminal window I get the message:
> > "/media/floppy device is busy" twice. (Why twice anyway?) I've tried
> > using the command "fuser /dev/fd0" to locate processes accessing the
> > disk and this gives me a pid -- but when I try killing the process a new
> > pid replaces it. The only way out seems to be rebooting... which just
> > doesn't seem right!
> >
> > Is this a bug or something "hanging on" in my system? Does anyone have
> > a suggestion for troubleshooting this further?
>
> Would you mind to tell us which PID you are killing? I mean which
> respawning service it is which's PID you kill.
>
OK, I tried this again. Here's the relevant output line from "ps aux":
magnusg 5415 0.0 0.3 4912 1908 ? S 16:20 0:00 /usr/libexec/gam_
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