I just had it laying around for one night (mounted and no action except of
the dayly update run at midnight). This worked ok for almost two months
without that symptom - so I guess it is a race condition (either in mount
or in any access) or it doesn't handle some error which may occur on
dirty CDs.
Konrad
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Robert K. Nelson wrote:
> Under a 2.2.12 kernel I have a CDROM which won't unmount. Symptoms
>
> It isn't in /etc/mtab (doesn't show up under a /bin/mount)
> It is in /proc/mounts
> When I try to /bin/umount it is reported as device busy
> /usr/sbin/fuser -u -m reports no users on the drive
> /usr/sbin/fuser -v reports that the kernel has the drive mounted
>
> I can read the files on the CDROM, I just can't unmount it. This may be
> due
> the fact that VMWare has been run on this machine (tho it is not running
> presently). In any case, it would be nice to have a way to force the
> mount
> and usage status of a drive to be made consistant.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Bob Nelson
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