unmounting a volume

[Brian Densmore]

How did you mount the device? I get unmount issues with 
usb file devices with some regularity.  I have closed
all file managers, and terminals I've had open with varying
success. Generally, logging out of KDE and back in does it
for me. Some bug in kfilemanager perhaps? I've never had a
command line hang as a result of this though. I have also
used ctrl-alt-bspace to kill X entirely, and all it's real
and imagined processes. Either of these techniques has always
worked for me. It is a bit extreme, if you ask me (even a bit
Microsftesque). Still it's better than rebooting, or walking
the process tree. Also you might try looking at ps and using
the option to display the child/parent relationship, but if
the problem is similar to mine this won't help.


Brian Densmore

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duane Attaway 
> 
> What do you do when you want to unmount a volume, but its 
> BUSY by some 
> nonexistant process?
> 
> I had a USB drive mounted and the drive went into suspend.  
> It doesn't 
> wake up properly with this kernel and unmounting hangs the 
> command line. 
> Syncing hangs too.  Unmounting with the -f option tells me 
> umount is also 
> busy?!
>