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ekki_123
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:45 pm    Post subject: Problem while installing on NSLU2 Reply with quote

Hi.
I went through the excellent Wiki howto for the NSLU2, so far all ok.

The installation of OpenSlug 3.1 went fine, I initialized a USB harddisk s in the Howto etc. etc.

Now I come to the point where I should reboot...
The Howto says to unmount the USB drive, but on umount /dev/sda1 I get a 'device busy' error and the disk remains mounted.
# mount says:
Code:

root@grappa:/# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type jffs2 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/root on /dev/.static/dev type jffs2 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
tmpfs on /var type tmpfs (rw)
tmpfs on /media/ram type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/gentoo type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)
tmpfs on /mnt/gentoo/dev type tmpfs (rw)
root@grappa:/#


I tried to umount /mnt/gentoo/dev, but that also results in a 'device busy'. Maybe it's interesting that I get that twice:
Code:

root@grappa:/# umount /mnt/gentoo/dev
umount: /mnt/gentoo/dev: device is busy
umount: /mnt/gentoo/dev: device is busy
root@grappa:/#


What gives? WIth the meagre shell of OpenSlug I can't 'lsof' or see anything which still accesses the drive. How can I find out, or how can I cleanly unmount the drive now?

Thanks for any hints.

Ekki/Germany
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just reboot, the system will unmount the volumes.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nixnut wrote:
Just reboot, the system will unmount the volumes.


Thanks for the reply, but that is no viable solution.

1.) I am using Linux also because I like to understand what is going on. Your proposal is what I call a "Windows" solution. Sorry.

2.) Not properly unmounting a drive with ext2 will most likely lead to a hang of the system because it want's to start a fsck on boot. With no terminal, no sshd running, I have no way to see what's going on, the system just does not boot. I have to unplug the disk, boot onto OpenSlug on flash, plug in the disk again, do fsck manually and try again...

So, if anybody could give me a hint what might be the reason for not being able to properly unmount the disk, I would be very grateful.

Rgds,
Ekki/Germany
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:48 pm    Post subject: what else is mounted? Reply with quote

Hi there,

just a guess, but it could be possible, that there are some filesystems mounted beneath /dev/sda11.

try the following:

Code:
mount

This shows everything mounted, like /dev/sda11 mounted on /mnt/gentoo.
Maybe there is still proc mounted on /mnt/gentoo/proc
OR
/dev/pts mounted on /mnt/gentoo/dev/pts
/dev mounted on /mnt/gentoo/dev
umount them.

otherwise, if you've done a chroot into your gentoo-env, it could be possible that you have emerged cron and or syslog and their processes are still accessing stuff in /var/log/.
remount all your necessary stuff and do a chroot.
Try stopping your cron and syslog ( if your using vixie-cron and syslog-ng ) with
Code:
/etc/init.d/vixie-cron stop;/etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop
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