Problem with gam_server

Alexander Apprich a.apprich at science-computing.de
Tue Mar 1 13:32:31 UTC 2005


John,

John Wendel wrote:
> Running up to date FC3.
> 
> I just burned a DVD and mounted it to check the files. When I tried to 
> umount it, umount said it was busy. lsof showed that the gam_server had 
> grabbed it.
> 
> So, not really knowing WTF the gam_server was, I tried man gam_server, 
> no luck, and apropos gam, still no luck. I hate stuff that doesn't have 
> a man page.
> 
> It can't be uninstalled, too many dependencies. I checked the services 
> configuration menu, no luck. I grepped /etc looking for a configuration 
> file entry that said gam_server, but found nothing.
> 
> Can someone tell me how to configure this POS so it doesn't grab my 
> mounted devices. Better yet, can I just make it go away?
> 

there are serval problems known w/ gam_server. Funny I never had any
problems unmount devices as a user. What version of gamin are you
running? I just updated gamin to gamin.i386 0:0.0.24-1.FC3

Also, did you manually change /etc/fstab for /media/[cdrom/floppy/etc]?

> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 

Alex




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