Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Allen Seelye <aseelye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [12-02-03 10:38]:
> I'm having this problem with on two machines, both SuSE 8.2. I'll put
> in a zip disk or a cd or a floppy, and when I'm ready to unmount it,
> sometimes it won't let me. It gives me this error;
> 
> 	Could not unmount device.
> 	The reported error was:
> umount: /media/cdrom: device is busy
> 
> I look in the process table and can't find anything related to the
> device in question, I try browsing to different folders to make sure it
> doesn't still think I'm looking at the mounted drive. I've also tried
> just waiting a while to see if the system figures it out on it's own.
> When this happens, the only way to get the disc out is to restart. 
 
If you were accessing the drive with konq, you need to look for a kinit
process that was initiated when you accessed the drive and kill it.
This is common.  A solution would be to use krusader or fr or mc or
command-line to access the cd/floppy/zip.  When you leave the device,
the device is released.

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