On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 15:49, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:05:16PM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > > > > >>Hey all, > > >> I just ran into the annoying fam and cdrom issue. It seems like it > > >>was fixed in Fedora Core 1 back in December. Does anyone know how to > > >>fix this issue in Debian Testing? > > >> > > >> > > > > > >Since I don't use Fedora (and I doubt many on this list do either) can you > > >tell us what "the annoying fam and cdrom issue" is, perhaps a description > > >or > > >a link to a page that talks about it? Googling on > > >annoying+fam+and+cdrom+issue didn't turn up anything interesting. > > > > > > > > If you google for "cdrom fam device busy", there are lots of hits. > > Basically, the problem is after inserting a cdrom into the cdrom drive, > > fam starts monitoring the drive, causing a "device busy" error when > > attempting to unmount/eject the cd. If fam is shutdown (/etc/init.d/fam > > stop), then it is possible to unmount the cdrom. > > I'm running Libranet 2.8.1 (basically a mixture of sarge and sid) and > haven't noticed any conflict between fam and my cdroms. > umount -l {device or mount point} The problem is that fam has the device busy more often than not, and umount -l is "lazy unmount" - it monitors the device until nothing (including fam) is using it and does the umount. Nautilus (and similar X11-based applications providing user requested mounting/unmounting) wouldn't be hurt by being patched to use that method by default. After work today, I might dig into the source and see if I can't do that patch for nautilus at least.
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