Trouble unmounting USB devices

Chee Ong Loh onnyloh at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 06:25:59 UTC 2005


update your package: gamin to get rid gam_server issue.

Or alternatively, you may search for the pid and kill it:
fuser -kav /media/<usb> && umount /media/<usb>


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:36:34 -0800, John Wendel <jwendel10 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > Hi all;
> >
> > I have 2 devices that I use often.
> >
> > 1. a 1Gig memory stick via a usb emory stick reader
> > 2. a 40Gig Firelight USB2 exterenal hard drive
> >
> > both devices are immediately recognized and have no problems with usage.
> > However much of the time I cannot unmount the device. I get a message
> > that says the device is busy. I have no windows open which are "in" the
> > device directory.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> 
> Probably "/usr/libexec/gam_server" has grabbed a directory on the
> device. Run the command "lsof" to see what process has which files open.
> 
> I did "chmod 000 /usr/libexec/gam_server" to make it go away.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John Wendel
> 
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