problem with usbkey

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Sat Aug 14 22:11:05 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 17:29 +0200, Adam Antoniak wrote:
> Hello folks!
> I have a problem with my usbkey. It gets mounted but unmounting is a real
> nightmare. Whenever I try running umound command I get message "device
> busy". The device has its internal battery that gets charged while
> connected to usb port. May that have something to do with it? Looking
> forward to receiving some hints helpful in solving this annoying issue.
> 
> All the best to all list readers,
> 
> Adam

	Possibly you are using FC1? there is a service named FAM that updates
system info on what files have changed et. and has caused this problem.
Although in FC2 it is mostly fixed I do occasionally get the error too.

Either use umount -l /mnt/whatyoucallit

or stop the fam service

Scott





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