On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Heimo Claasen wrote:
> Sorry for the "convoluted style", James - perhaps it stems from trying
> not to get entagled with terms I'm not too sure about.
>
It's actually entertaining most of the time. Sometimes your meaning is a
bit obscure, though. In any case, I'm not asking
Sorry for the "convoluted style", James - perhaps it stems from trying
not to get entagled with terms I'm not too sure about.
And yes, this is how I see it too:
> if the user mounts the CDROM, then navigates into the
> /whatever/cdrom directory using MC, then exits MC (F10), the OS will
> continue
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Heimo Claasen wrote:
>
> A good illustration is the behaviour of the Midnight Commander: you
> start it somwhere on some branch on the directory tree, then you
> navigate _inside_ the prog to _look_ at some other branch/files, and if
> you exit MC then your're quite somewhere e
Maybe, and I think, the thing is much more trivial - but for the reason
of typical specialised blindness, you never get it explained from the
*nix gurus: It has to do with the current "location" where you are when
trying to "umount /cdrom" - if one of the applications in any one of the
desktop wind
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 18:28, Dan Zlotnikov wrote:
> I proceed to do the following (cdrom is mounted, accord. to fuser no
> processes are using it)
> alpha:/cdrom# adsl-start
> . Connected!
>
> alpha:/cdrom#fuser /cdrom/
> /cdrom/: 2176c 2485c 2513c 2515c
>
> The processes are: (i
Dan Zlotnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> umount /cdrom
> umount: /cdrom: device is busy
> Or in other words, "*$^! you!"
>
> No processes that I could identify suggested themselves as the visible
> culprit. Rebooting works, but killing the x-session doesn't.
>
> Help, anyone?
>
> Dan
You co
> Your fanciful responses from the computer are cute but, in practice,
> distracting and even a bit confusing. In particular, when you report ...
Well, at least they were cute...
> ... does the "Okay" stand in for the fact that mplayer *begins* playing the
> file or *finishes* playing the file?
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 17:19, Dan Zlotnikov wrote:
> In Deb.woody, kernel 2.4.18, I have the following problem:
>
> mount /cdrom
> "sure," the computer says, "I will."
>
> cd /cdrom
>
> mplayer -fs whateverthehellI'mwatching
> "Okay," says the computer.
>
> cd
> "No problems," says the beast.
>
>
At 11:19 AM 7/22/2003 -0400, Dan Zlotnikov wrote:
In Deb.woody, kernel 2.4.18, I have the following problem:
mount /cdrom
"sure," the computer says, "I will."
cd /cdrom
mplayer -fs whateverthehellI'mwatching
"Okay," says the computer.
cd
"No problems," says the beast.
umount /cdrom
umount: /cdrom
In Deb.woody, kernel 2.4.18, I have the following problem:
mount /cdrom
"sure," the computer says, "I will."
cd /cdrom
mplayer -fs whateverthehellI'mwatching
"Okay," says the computer.
cd
"No problems," says the beast.
umount /cdrom
umount: /cdrom: device is busy
Or in other words, "*$^! you!"
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