Did you try umount -f /mnt/point ? On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 09:58, Weekley, Arnold (C)(STP) wrote: > I just purchased a new system. It has a MSI KT3 Ultra2 KT333 Socket A Mainboard, > an AMD Athlon 2100+ processor and a 80gb Western Digital drive. > > I've loaded Phoebe (Beta 2) for testing. In general, things look good. The > primary problem I'm having is when I copy files from an Iomega USB 2 Hard drive > (40gb) to my home directory, the copy locks up after copying for awhile. When > it locks up, I can still perform other system functions, but cannot kill the > copy and cannot browse the usb hard drive. I've done a <CTRL><ALT><F1>, logged > in as root and executed "halt". The system won't shutdown though, because it > says /home is busy and can't be unmounted. I've had to turn the power off to > finish the shutdown. I can do this (hard shutdown) while testing, but would > rather not when I make the system my primary computer. > > I searched google and found that there are some USB 2 issues with kernels prior > to 2.4.21-pre3, in particular with the VIA USB controller. > > My primary question is: Is there a way I can force a clean shutdown when > unmount won't? > > 2nd question is: Does anybody know if Redhat will be incorporating the USB > fixes in 8.1 final? I plan on submitting a bug to bugzilla tonight, but thought > I'd ask. > > > Arnold Weekley > Contractor > Guidant Corporation > 4100 Hamline Ave. North > St. Paul, MN 55112-5798 > Tel: 651-582-7610 Fax: 651-582-5096 > www.guidant.com > >
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