Re: What might be grabbing devices?

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:16:26 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I know that the desktop monitors for new devices because when I insert
> a dvd a window pops up asking me what I want to do.  For cd/dvd
> burning I'm advised to turn off other things that access the device
> (though I also gather the problems k3b is having verifying probably
> lie elsewhere).
> 
> More immediately, I'm having trouble faxing and one possibility is
> that something is interefering with /dev/ttyS0.
> 
> Does anyone know what exactly might be doing such things, and how I
> can disable it?  I've seen some suggestion that hal is the culprit,
> but nothing definite.

lsof -w | grep /dev/ttyS0

might tell you which process is blocking the device.

> The system with the fax trouble is Debian testing, KDE 3.5, 2.4 kernel
> (i.e, not udev).  The one with the dvd is running 2.6.15 kernel with
> udev.

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Regards,
          Florian