On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:38:53PM -0500, Pat Mahoney (pmahoney@uiuc.edu) wrote: > Ok, freeamp crashed with the audio device open (/dev/dsp). Nothing can use > the device. fuser and lsof show nothing active on /dev/dsp. No lock files > in /var/lock/. > > I can't rmmod the sound modules because they're "in use". I rm'd /dev/dsp > and mknod'd it but still nothing. The sound modules won't go away with > /dev/dsp gone either. > > Is there a way to remove files that are in use? > > Better yet, how do I fix this problem? > > A reboot should of course, fix it, but that doesn't solve the actual problem. Unfortunately, this is one of the situations in which a reboot may be the *only* way to free a resource. I could be wrong, but this is my general understanding. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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