Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:26:00 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Robert <traveling08@cox.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to umount Message-ID: <AANLkTinWrpyMSBNFSL-SUS23AsjVseNpt_biAcV4Bxnq@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110312080706.2d98afb6@dell64> References: <20110312080706.2d98afb6@dell64>
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Robert <traveling08@cox.net> wrote:
Greetings
>
> On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am
> unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have tried both
> Fat32 and UFS formatted drives. I have tried with and without HAL
> enabled.
>
> I am running with all ports up to date and the latest XFCE4. This
> problem started with the upgrade of XFCE4 and Xorg. Here is how it looks
>
> [robert@dell64] ~> mount_msdosfs /dev/da6s1 Flash
> [robert@dell64] ~> ls -l Flash
> total 128
> drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 21 18:18 Android
> drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 6 1980 LOST.DIR
> drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 21 17:36 rosie_scroll
> drwxr-xr-x 1 robert robert 32768 Jan 21 16:53 rssreader
> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash
> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy
> [robert@dell64] ~> umount /dev/da6s1
> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy
>
> If I log out of XFCE4 to the CLI, I can then umount normally.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> TIA
>
>
Are you on the drive or do you have files open from the flash drive? Try
this:
lsof /home/robert/Flash
or
lsof /dev/da6s1
It will tell you what files are using the device, you should close all files
before unmounting as well as making sure your not in /home/robert/Flash/ or
some subdir of ~/Flash.
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