Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:07:50 GMT From: bob frazier <bobf@mrp3.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: gnu/141397: gnome desktop prevents umount without '-f' Message-ID: <200912120607.nBC67oUF070612@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200912120610.nBC6A1Yx087032@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 141397
>Category: gnu
>Synopsis: gnome desktop prevents umount without '-f'
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Dec 12 06:10:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: bob frazier
>Release: 7.2-STABLE
>Organization:
SFT Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD BSDSilver.SFT.local 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #2: Wed Sep 30 15:35:18 PDT 2009 bobf@BSDSilver.SFT.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
with gnome desktop running, unmounting a removable device is not possible without specifying the '-f' flag under specific conditions. Previous PR 136435, re-submitted due to inability to reproduce problem and cancelation of previous PR.
Conditions for bug reproduction:
1. auto-mount of removable devices disabled
2. mount point is directly off of '/' (such as '/ramstick')
3. mount point isn't "/mnt" (which appears to be unaffected)
so, mounting a USB device to "/media/ramstick" (either via fstab entry or by specifying the path on the 'mount' command line) will generally NOT reproduce this problem. But mounting the SAME device to "/ramstick" will.
WORKAROUND: specify a mount point that has more than one directory in it, such as "/media/ramstick" rather than "/ramstick".
Additional information
installed port versions:
gnome2-2.26.3
xorg-7.4_2
hal-0.5.11_26
dbus-1.2.4.6_1
capture of typical problem reproduction
BSDSilver/# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
BSDSilver/# umount /mnt
BSDSilver/# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /schtuff
BSDSilver/# umount /schtuff
umount: unmount of /schtuff failed: Device busy
BSDSilver/# umount -f /schtuff
BSDSilver/# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /media/ramstick
BSDSilver/# umount /media/ramstick
>How-To-Repeat:
while running the latest gnome desktop, perform the following:
1. insert a usb disk device and note device node (example /dev/da0s1)
2. From gnome-terminal (as root) create the /schtuff directory and mount using
mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /schtuff
3. unmount the same device via
umount /schtuff
Note error message "umount: unmount of /schtuff failed: Device busy"
4. use 'mount' to list all mounted devices and note /dev/da0s1 still mounted
5. unmount forcibly using "umount -f /schtuff"
6. create the directory "/media/schtuff" and re-attempt 2 using "/media/schtuff" as the mount point
7. unmount the device using
umount /media/schtuff
and note successful unmount of the device without '-f'
8. Repeat the same sequence as 6 and 7 with "/mnt" and note that it, too, is successful unmounting the device without '-f'.
>Fix:
workaround: use a directory that is not directly off of '/' as the mount point, or use '/mnt'. This also applies to mount points listed in /etc/fstab
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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