usb stick

[Remco Treffkorn]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 11:38, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:31:35 -0700, Remco Treffkorn <remco at rvt.com> wrote:
> > Under KDE the flash shows up in the file manager under "devices:/".
> > Mounting and browsing is no problem, but one can not unmount the unit.
> > You get a "device is busy" error. Happens even after exiting the file
> > manager. Lsof reveals fam as the culprit. This is pretty messed up, and I
> > hope it's my fault, because that would be a major bug.
>
> Some could argue that fam itself is a major bug.
> fam's locking of devices is a known issue, it happened in fc1 as well.
> Though I can not reliably reproduce it on my fc1 system where i have
> usb devices. The fact that the same behavior is still in the devel
> tree isnt a big shocker.
>
> -jef

Now that you mentioned it, it was on two fc1 systems. Forgot I even had them.

With fc2 the behaviour is better. The device can be unmounted, and 
subsequently removed. KDE keeps showing it under "devices:/", but that seems 
to be a KDE bug.

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Remco Treffkorn (RT445)
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