Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:54:57 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Robert <traveling08@cox.net> Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to umount Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103121835590.61524@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20110312093423.2b8f9eba@dell64> References: <20110312090634.3c1ce3ed@dell64> <20110312172959.65728.qmail@joyce.lan> <20110312093423.2b8f9eba@dell64>
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Robert wrote: > On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 -0000 > John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: > >>>> [robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash >>>> umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy >> >> Try umount -f >> >> The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the >> device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. > > That works! > I did not have to do that before the recent updates to XFCE4 and Xorg > but as long as I can umount, I'm happy. Saw the same thing here, also with xfce. lsof reports nothing open on either the mountpoint or the device. fstat blames gam_server: % fstat /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/ USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME wblock gam_server 1409 776 /usr/home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage 244864 drwx------ 4096 r /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/
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