Something's Eating all my RAM and Swap when I unmount a drive

If I unmount as a regular user, I see my RAM usage start to go through the roof until my system chokes. If I unmount as root, it works fine. This happens for both USB flash drives and regular IDE hard drives. I'm not really sure what information is helpful, because I don't know what part of the sy

Re: libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy - SOLVED

YES!! So I didn't have to reinstall, I found out from a bug report that in one case the lsbdev package was the problem. So I did a dpkg -P lsbdev, and then apt-get let me upgrade libc6 just fine. So I guess this is a bug in the lsbdev package? -spencer here's a copy of the email I sent describin

Re: libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy

Hello, So with no progress on fixing this, is my best option to reinstall? How much would I probably need to get rid of? What's the best "debian way" to reinstall all the packages? Thanks! -spencer here's a copy of the email I sent describing the problem:

libc6 upgrade: device or resource busy

Hello, I'm trying to upgrade libc from 2.3.2.ds1-19 to 2.3.2.ds2-20, and apt-get install libc gives the following error message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-20_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to install new version of `./lib/ld-2.3.2.so': Device or resource busy dp