Fw: unmounting cdrom drive

[Schlueri]

Am Mi, den 14.04.2004 schrieb J. Erik Hemdal um 14:45:
>  Anthony Thompson said:
>  > I have just made the change from Mandrake to Fedora Core 1 and Im having
>  > problems unmounting cdrom drive.
>  > Everytime i attempt to umount /mnt/cdrom or eject I get the error "cdrom
>  > busy".
>  >
>  > I am well aware this normally occurs if you are still using the cdrom
>  > drive. I spent 30mins browsing the fedora list archives but was able to
>  > get any ideas/solutions..
> 
>  Yes.  This happens on Fedora and also on RHL 8/9.  I see it occasionally
> and
>  do a lazy umount if it happens.
> 
>  umount -l (lowercase letter L) takes care of it for me.
> 
>  Some man pages seem to suggest that umount itself can cause the filesystem

At me, a 'killall -HUP pam' solves the problem. Looks like the pam
process accesses the cdrom. A 'umount -l' does it too.

HTH,

Greetz
Dirk

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