[Bug 731379] Re: leaves behind /dev/loop[n] devices that can't be removed from unity launcher

Brian Murray brian at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 5 16:46:12 UTC 2012


These are also visible by looking at the output of 'cat /etc/mtab':

/dev/loop0 /tmp/tmpl1gKA2 iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/loop1 /tmp/tmpJMBvF6 iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/loop2 /tmp/tmp9zIPVJ iso9660 ro 0 0

This is still an issue with the Quantal version (0.2.40ubuntu1) of usb-
creator.

** Tags added: quantal

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Summary changed:

- leaves behind /dev/loop[n] devices that can't be removed from unity launcher
+ leaves behind /dev/loop[n] devices and mounted isos

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Title:
  leaves behind /dev/loop[n] devices and mounted isos

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator

  I used this to create a couple of USB boot systems. That all went
  fine, but afterwards, for each one, I was left with a loopback device
  visible in the unity launcher and the disk utility. They're not
  mounted, and attempting to mount them fails (showing this in disk
  utility:

  Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
         missing codepage or helper program, or other error
         (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
         ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
         In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
         dmesg | tail  or so
  )

  Looks like some cleanup wasn't done when usb-creator finished (it has
  been closed normally, the loop devices remain). And now there's no
  readily apparent way to make them go away. :-)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.28
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Mar  8 15:17:49 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-02-26 (10 days ago)

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