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| 296203 | 2004-11-25 08:31:00 | I'm having another go with FC3. Why is it when I have a cd in a drive, access it & all is ok. But when I want to remove the cd it won't spit it out. I've tried unmounting it & ejecting, it says it's busy. | phil.b (4456) | ||
| 296204 | 2004-11-25 08:55:00 | Yeah, Linux sometimes gets very fond of its file systems and gets reluctant to let go ... :p So, how are you trying to unmount the CD? Make sure you don't have any window open still that was used to browse the CD first. As root in a terminal, (you need to use 'su -' to swtich to root powers), enter in this: umount /dev/cdrom Note: it is umount and not unmount Normally you just need to right-click on the CD drive icon and select eject, unless the CD was mounted as root, and then only root can unmount it. Now, if you still get device is busy errors after trying the umount command you can see what is keeping a hold of the CD drive by using this command (as root): fuser -vm /dev/cdrom It might say fam, in which case, kill that by using: fuser -km /dev/cdrom Let us know how you get on. :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 296205 | 2004-11-25 09:32:00 | it says fuser command not found. I had tried the other commands & just got device busy. www.fedoraforum.org I found the above site. They don't know how to fix it either. Funny thing is I've never had this problem with mandrake. Why is it that Fedora Core gets good user support when it when it's not user friendly lspci doesn't work again either |
phil.b (4456) | ||
| 296206 | 2004-11-25 10:04:00 | > it says fuser command not found. I had tried the > other commands & just got device busy. > lspci doesn't work again either I think you haven't installed some tools which are quite handy ... Go ALT-F2 and enter in 'system-config-packages', and then root's password. Scroll down to "Development" and put a tick beside "Development Tools" and then click the "update" button - it will ask for the required CD. That should install the missing tools like fuser and lspci etc. > Why is it that Fedora Core gets good user support > when it when it's not user friendly Fedora can be a bit more complex, as it is a more multi-system OS rather than pure desktop. It is also more bleeding-edge than Mandrake which means it can be not so user friendly at times. However, it is still a very nice distro to use for a first looksie at Linux. :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 296207 | 2004-11-25 13:18:00 | I use Fedora and have not had this problem, Although my system is updated fully and haven't hit any known problems yet. Make sure that /bin/umount exists, to fix the problem of either typing umount or unmount just cp /bin/umount /bin/unmount so now it will work either way, could also just link it. Make sure you are root when doing this. You usually can't eject the drive when it's mounted, it has to get unmounted first. You must be out of the directory if in terminal, if using the GUI File Browser then it will automatically close it when you unmount. Make sure that no programs are using the CD and if they were, make sure that they terminated correctly, they could still be in memory. Fedora/Red Hat has the largest number of users with this distribution, which would suggest why it has good user support. Try su - (with the minus sign, when su-ing to root) This will mean you don't have to type the full path to files because you are given root's PATH's otherwise you would need to type /sbin/lspci for it to work Kame |
Kame (312) | ||
| 296208 | 2004-11-26 07:07:00 | Hi Jen & Kame, I already had the development tools 53 of 65 installed, the su - did the trick as far as command line commands working. If the cdrom is reported as unmounted & it still doesn't spit it out I presume something's running in memory. If I press ctrl/esc I get the running process window. What am I looking for as I can't see anything related to cdrom. I don't know what the command is to do it in a terminal. Phil |
phil.b (4456) | ||
| 296209 | 2004-11-26 07:09:00 | It now says it can't read the superblock | phil.b (4456) | ||
| 296210 | 2004-11-26 07:20:00 | I copied the /bin/umount /bin/unmount as suggested by Kame. I have copied from the cd to several different files & unmounted by gui right click the device, unmount, press the button & out pops the disc, it works every time. Thank you. Now I'm going to have another go at installing the nvidia drivers. I'll see you when & if I get this working again Phil |
phil.b (4456) | ||
| 296211 | 2004-11-26 07:26:00 | Hi Phil Try the fuser command again I gave before this time making sure you use the 'su -' to change to root powers (don't forget the hyphen). fuser -vm /dev/cdrom (or fuser -vm /mnt/cdrom) If you get a process listed, normally 'fam', then kill it by using the kill switch in the above command, and then ejecting your CD. fuser -km /dev/cdrom (or fuser -km /mnt/cdrom) eject cdrom The tool fuser should be installed on FC3. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 296212 | 2004-11-26 07:28:00 | Speaking of fedora, how long does it take to update this thing, i jsut installed it as my first ever linux distro and so far im near on 3 and a half hours into updates... | lagbort (5041) | ||
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