On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:53:28 -0800 David <dafr+p...@dafr.us> dijo: >On 12/30/2015 09:39 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:42 -0800 >> Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> dijo: >> >>>>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> writes: >>> >>> John> However, at this point the optical drive won't mount >>> John> anything. I tried half a dozen different DVDs, the light on >>> John> the drive flashes briefly, then stops. The mount command does >>> John> not see it, nor is there anything in the GUI file manager. >>> >>> John> Now I'm worried that there might be a hardware failure. >>> >>> The other thing that is interesting is the last bit of the output >>> from dmesg. Something like: >> >> I had been running dmesg |tail without the number, so it displayed >> only the last half dozen lines or so. I never saw anything untoward. >> However, just now I tried it again and, as before, there was nothing >> relating to disks except the very last line: >> >> [304047.428979] VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sr0 >> >> Back when it was mounting media (even though it failed to remove the >> mount point) I never saw this line. >> >> So now I'm beginning to think it is not a hardware failure. But I >> need someone to translate the above line into English. > >The device /dev/sr0 is typically the first CD/DVD device found by the >operating system (and /dev/sr1 would be the second). All it's saying >(loosely) is that the device wasn't cleanly closed before eject and an >inode is still being "accessed" even if no available any longer by >some process. > >This is why you can't mount anything new at this point with the device >still being "busy", according to the kernel.
Is there any way to fix it short of rebooting, which is a PITA? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
