USB device is busy

[Michael T. Richter]

On Sat, 2007-23-06 at 13:41 +0100, R Kimber wrote:

> When trying to unmount a USB drive I get "device is busy" even though
> applications that used it are closed, and no other applications are
> using it, and no terminals are open that point to it.
> 
> Is this a known problem?  I couldn't see anything on launchpad, but I
> may have overlooked it.


Open up a shell and type "lsof | grep -i <name of mount point>" and
you'll see who the culprit is.  When I get this (9 times out of ten when
using a USB drive), the culprit is nautilus.  "kill -9 <nautilus' pid>"
solves the problem for me.

But it's a bug and a bad one, IMO.

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