<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sat, 2007-23-06 at 13:41 +0100, R Kimber wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> 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. <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael T. Richter <<A HREF="mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com">ttmrichter@gmail.com</A>> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com) If there's one thing that computers do well, it's to make the same mistake uncountable times at inhuman speed. (Peter Coffee) </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>