reassign 292482 hal
thanks

Hi Diwaker!

Diwaker Gupta [2005-02-03 17:27 -0800]:
> > Also, can you unmount the respective device manually? So what happens
> > if you execute 'pumount /dev/yourdevice' while the device is still
> > mounted? If that command fails, please try
> 
> Yes, I can unmount the device manually. pumount fails.
> 
> # first I ripped out the device
> $ mount
> [snip]
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/backup type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=diwaker)
> 
> # so the entry is still there, while it shouldn't have been
> $ pumount /dev/sda1
> Error: could not determine real path of the device: No such file or directory
> 
> # of course, since /dev/sda1 doesn't exist anymore
> 
> $ pumount -d /dev/sda1
> /dev/sda1 cannot be resolved to a proper device node
> Error: could not determine real path of the device: No such file or directory
> 
> Like I said, this only happens with devices which have entries in /etc/fstab. 
> Devices that are completely automagically handled by pmount don't give this 
> problem.

pmount does not do automatic unmounting of ripped out devices, this is
done by /etc/dev.d/block/hal-unmount.dev. This doesn't seem to work
for you, I reassign to the hal maintainer. (Hello Sjoerd :-) )

Thanks,

Martin

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