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Bug 94552 - famd prevents nautilus from unmounting removable devices
famd prevents nautilus from unmounting removable devices
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102760
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
1.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 127426 141049 146420 166176 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-09-30 20:47 UTC by TomFrayne
Modified: 2005-02-03 20:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description TomFrayne 2002-09-30 20:47:04 UTC 
I have a DVD-RAM drive formated as vfat and mounted via 
mount -t auto -o umask=000 /dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd
If I then access the drive via the Nautilus file tree and issue
umount /mnt/dvd
, I get the message: device is busy.  Clicking other parts of the file 
tree does not help.  I continue to get the message until I close the 
Nautilus window.


I believe that Redhat 7.3 comes with Gnome2, but I was unable to verify 
this.
Comment 1 Tuomas Kuosmanen 2002-10-08 08:38:38 UTC 
this is generic for any removable *writable* devices.

For example USB/Firewire harddisks, my Sony Clie which exports its
memory stick as a usb-storage device.. The problem is with FAM:

umount /mnt/clie 
umount: /mnt/clie: device is busy

and:

# lsof /mnt/clie 
COMMAND PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE  SIZE NODE NAME
famd    830 root  157r   DIR    8,1 16384    2 /mnt/clie/.Trash-tigert

I think this has been reported earlier too but I couldnt find the bug
number right now :-/ sorry about that.

Has anyone looked into this, it makes mounting stuff and using them
with nautilus such a pain - *even* if you dont browse the device with
nautilus, since the moment you mount it if it is user mountable, it
pops on the desktop and FAM hooks into it, not freeing the "watch" so
the kernel fails to umount the device.

This plainly sucks and makes it painful to use, I need to su root;
killall famd; killall nautilus *every* time I need to umount my
firewire disk for example - causes me to lose my work setup on the
open nautilus windows etc..
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2003-11-20 13:51:19 UTC 
*** Bug 127426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2003-11-20 13:51:31 UTC 
Are you using fam in standalone or inetd mode ? If you're using the
inetd one could you try with standalone, fam seems to have some
problems with the inetd mode ...
Comment 4 Vincent Noel 2004-07-22 21:59:53 UTC 
*** Bug 146420 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Vincent Noel 2004-07-22 22:02:07 UTC 
*** Bug 141049 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Vincent Noel 2004-07-22 22:02:42 UTC 
I've changed the bug title to better describe what's going on here.
Comment 7 Matthew Gatto 2004-07-24 17:29:43 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102760 ***
Comment 8 Sebastien Bacher 2005-02-03 20:56:20 UTC 
*** Bug 166176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***