[ILUG] cdrom and fuser.

[Pat Martin]

Try to see if lsof yields any further information as to which process may
have your cdrom locked up.

- Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Corcoran." <corcoranj at logica.com>
To: <ILUG at linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:37 AM
Subject: [ILUG] cdrom and fuser.


> List,
>
> Every  now and then, lately more now than then, Xmms hangs when playing
mp3's
> from a CDROM, I can't restart xmms and if I try to unmount the cdrom I'm
told
> the device is busy.
>
> A fuser on /cdrom tells me ....
> /cdrom/:
> No process references; use -v for the complete list
>
> and a fuser -v
>
> corcoraj at linux:~ > fuser -v /cdrom/
>
>                      USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
> /cdrom/              root     kernel mount  /cdrom
>
> I have left this over night and the only recourse is to reboot my machine,
>
> Any suggestions or pointers.
>
> Thanks
> Jason
>
>
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