From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 3 00:40:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA27932 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA27925 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:40:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA00431; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:09:31 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971003170931.25574@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:09:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White Cc: George Vagner , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: try this References: <9709280025.AA16823@donald.spdc.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:48:29PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:48:29PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, George Vagner wrote: > >> run startx and then run xfm go to your /cdrom directory using xfm, >> now move your mouse to another active xterm and type umount /cdrom >> all hell breaks loose >> and i cant do anyhing, i had to reboot by the reset button which scared me. > > Yeah, that's what happens when you unmount a filesystem that someone is > attached to. Suggestion: don't do it. :-) That doesn't stop this being a bug. It shouldn't be possible to umount a file system which is in use. I suppose somebody should enter a pr about this one. Greg