[linux-help] Re: floppy problem

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 02 June 2003 12:06 am, you wrote:
> Here's an explanation (of sorts) of this problem:
>
>    http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue83/tag/6.html

An interesting discussion, although much of it was above my head.  
Apparently this happens in more ways than I would have expected.
Seems like I remember having to kill Konqueror in order to umount a 
cdrom.  Konqueror is a bit buggy, I am afraid.

> My guess is that if killing the parent process works to free the
> device, that's just dumb luck. (It's possible, as they suggest, that
> a timeout may have independently corrected the problem.)

In my case with mcopy,  it was still stuck the next day, so a timeout 
was not going to help.  I shut down everything but the terminal window 
(in KDE) and it was still stuck.  After I shut down KDE and restarted 
it I was able to use the floppy.  Not having to reboot helped me keep 
my faith in the integrity of the linux kernel.
bruce
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