I have an external hard drive (formatted vfat) for backup and portability. I mount it via USB. When famd is running I can't unmount it. lsof |grep (mount point) shows lots of famd processes. In order to unmount cleanly I have to stop famd, as root of course. This is a bit clumsy, and might be risky if the impatient would just pull out the wire. I did an emerge -uD world recently to check that it hasn't been taken care of already. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda2 2.umount /dev/sda2 3. Actual Results: umount: /mnt/sda2: device is busy umount: /mnt/sda2: device is busy Expected Results: unmounted the disk emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bidi bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cscope cups dga div4linux dvd encode esd exif f77 fam fftw flac flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif ginac gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod ming motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python quicktime radeon readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype trusted unicode usb wmf x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zeo zlib"
well these are problems in fam that aren't going to be solved i think, we suggest you try gamin as a replacement.
probably fam problem which isn't going to be fixed in the forseeable future.
*** Bug 123702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #2) > probably fam problem which isn't going to be fixed in the forseeable future. Doesn't it mean that fam must not be in the stable tree?
