unmounting floppies

[Jeff Vian]

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.
> 
> Alexander
> 
Alexander,
I have been having a similar problem with CDs as well
Recently I used lsof and found 4 processes of gamin running
on /media/cdrom that I killed and was then able to unmount/eject the CD.
> 
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