Re: PROBLEM: FUSE unmount breaks serial terminal line

[Russell King]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:43:29PM +0200, Joerg Sommrey wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:07:24PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > Tested both gphoto2 and gtkam without any problems. There is no impact
> > > on the serial lines.
> > > 
> > > NB: The *real* trouble I have is with ntpd and a reference clock
> > > attached to /dev/ttyS1.  ntpd enters a busy loop reading ttyS1, stops
> > > working and eats up 100% CPU.  
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your investigations.  Any other idea?
> > 
> > Try 'killall -9 gphotofs' and then the 'fusermount -u'.
> > 
> > Does that have the same effect?  If so, after which does the serial
> > line die?
> 
> Here are the results and another insight:  only the first serial device
> open for reading is affected.  I.e. if ttyS0 is open for reading,
> ttyS1 doesn't break.  If ttyS0 is not open, then ttyS1 breaks.  This
> happens when gphotofs gets killed (or with fusermount -u without
> killing).

Have you checked to see what files gphotofs has open?  (Check in
/proc/<pid>/fd/).

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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