Package: os-prober
Version: 1.53
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
   Ran os-prober
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     I ran os-prober
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   /dev/sda1:Windows Vista (loader):Windows:chain
   rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/os-prober/mount': Device or resource busy
   /dev/sda2:Windows Vista (loader):Windows1:chain
   /dev/sdg1:unknown Linux distribution:Linux:linux
   rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/os-prober/mount': Device or resource busy
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   A list of operating systems.

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njh@packard:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda6       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro,noatime 0       1
UUID=38cb96ce-03b3-48e8-bb07-ada30a8f9c54       /               ext3    
errors=remount-ro,noatime 0       1
# /dev/sdb2       /home           ext3    noatime        0       2
UUID=924ab451-776c-4558-bca5-f52dee7a4ea2       /home           ext3    noatime 
       0       2
# /dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
UUID=0fa1b1a3-d3cc-4a3c-aa6f-37b5ee44261c       none            swap    sw      
        0       0
# /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8     0       0
/dev/cdrom1        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8     0      
 0
# /dev/sda2     /mnt/c          ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0,nls-utf8       0       0
UUID=BA7657137656CFAD   /mnt/c          ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0,nls-utf8       
00
# /dev/sdb1     /mnt/d          ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0,nls-utf8       0       0
UUID=5A3A6E293A6E027D   /mnt/d          ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0,nls-utf8       
00
gateway:/       /mnt/gateway    nfs     rw,hard,intr,nolock     0       0
gateway:/home   /mnt/gateway/home       nfs     rw,hard,intr,nolock     0       0
gateway:/var    /mnt/gateway/var        nfs     rw,hard,intr,nolock     0       0
gateway:/var/www/mirrors/CPAN   /mnt/CPAN       nfs     ro,intr 0       0
# 192.168.7.97:/Users/nigel/web /mnt/web        nfs     rw,intr 0       0
/dev/sdg1       /mnt/sdg1       ufs     ro,ufstype=sun  0       0
# LABEL=packard-mnt-sdg1        /mnt/sdg1       ufs     ro,ufstype=sun  0       0
/dev/sdg8       /mnt/sdg8       ufs     ro,ufstype=sun  0       0
# LABEL=packard-mnt-sdg8        /mnt/sdg8       ufs     ro,ufstype=sun  0       0
njh@packard:~$ 

It looks as though os-prober has hung because it hasn't noticed that the
mount command has finished:

28179 pts/0    S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests /dev/sdg8
28506 pts/0    D      0:00 mount -o ro -t ufs /dev/sdg8 /var/lib/os-prober/mount


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages os-prober depends on:
ii  libc6  2.13-34

os-prober recommends no packages.

os-prober suggests no packages.

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