From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 12 08:21:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258AC16A417 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:21:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.grunewald@laposte.net) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (smtp5-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB30A13C46B for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.grunewald@laposte.net) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823CA3F6194; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:21:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from Llea.celt.neu (ron34-3-82-236-236-194.fbx.proxad.net [82.236.236.194]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1A53F6182; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:21:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from Llea.celt.neu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Llea.celt.neu (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0C8TA9E083555; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:29:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michael.grunewald@laposte.net) Received: (from michael@localhost) by Llea.celt.neu (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m0C8T8lf083554; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:29:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michael.grunewald@laposte.net) X-Authentication-Warning: Llea.celt.neu: michael set sender to michael.grunewald@laposte.net using -f To: Darren Pilgrim References: <47871856.2070505@bitfreak.org> From: michael.grunewald@laposte.net (=?iso-8859-15?Q?Micha=EBl_Gr=FCnewald?=) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:29:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: <47871856.2070505@bitfreak.org> (Darren Pilgrim's message of "Thu\, 10 Jan 2008 23\:18\:46 -0800") Message-ID: <86ve5za1m3.fsf@Llea.celt.neu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to unmount idle filesystem on 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:21:56 -0000 Darren Pilgrim writes: > I'm unable to unmount an idle filesystem (or even drop it to > read-only): > > # umount /usr/ports > umount: unmount of /usr/ports failed: Device busy Do you have HAL daemon running? I recently had the same problem, and it turned out that momentaneously shutting down the daemon allowed me to unmount filesystems. See /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald. Hope this helps. Note: the HAL daemon is used by desktop environments like Gnome or Xfce, so if you use on of them, it is likely you have HAL daemon running. --=20 Best wishes, Micha=EBl