On Saturday 23 October 2004 18:00, C Hamel wrote:
On 12:30 Sat 23 Oct , Joe Polk wrote:
Q: Lately, everytime I insert a CD into either my CDR or my DVD I get a "device busy" error when I attempt to eject or umount. Even if I'm not in that directory and nothing is open running from there. If I try to umount -f I get "illegal seek." I'm running SuSE 9.0 Pro. I hadn't noticed this before, but then again I've recently begun going through my old backups on CD and removing junk.
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I, too, am running SuSE 9 Pro, and run into this sometimes ...though not every CD/DVD I put in the slot. When it happens the fastest way to get the media back is... #lsof /dev/hdc ...or whatever the device is, and kill the process. It's a hassle, but it
If the process is Konqueror: Konqueror -> Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Performance and set 'Maximum number of instances kept preloaded' to zero. Cheers, Leen