Kurt Wall wrote:
> Vern W Heesch offered this little gem:
> % I am running eW3.1 (beta) and am having a problem with the floppy. If I
> % try to mount it from the terminal it tells me it is already mounted. I
> % can cd to /mnt/floppy and see the files. If I click on the floppy icon
> % on my desktop it tells me it is already mounted or busy. I can't umount
> % it from the desktop icon because it doesn't have umount on the menu,
> % it's still mount. If I try to umount from the terminal it says it cannot
> % create link /etc/mtab~, perhaps there is a stale lock file?
> %
> % Can someone explain to me what the 'stale lock file' is all about, and
> % maybe a solution to this? This happened before and I couldn't figure
> % anything out so I rebooted. Would be nice if I could fix this without
> % having to reboot.
>
> Hmm. Have a look /in /var/lock for the offending file. Look also
> for a dot file in /etc. Is there already an /etc/mtab~ owned by
> another user? What happens if you simply log out all users?
>
> Kurt
> _______________________________________________
Thanks Kurt. Apparently I had mounted it in the console while signed in as root and
forgot
about it. It's just been 'one of those days'....again. :)
Vern
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