Rebooting Linux.
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swestrupPeople keep telling me that, unlike Windows, you don't have to reboot Linux when something hangs. That's certainly not MY experience. Mine is that for every 48 hours of working on a Linux system, I seem to hang something so bad that I can find no way to fix it, short of reboot.
Here's a prime example: I just burned a DVD. It worked fine. I ejected the DVD and re-inserted it. I then browsed into it with Nautilus to check it out. I went into a sub-diretory and waited for a file list, and waited, and waited, and waited. I closed nautilus and looked at the directory in term. Its all there. Fine, I'll eject the disk.
It won't eject. umount says its still 'busy', but I have no idea WHAT it thinks its busy doing. I try a force umount. No go. Then a lazy umount. Okay, THAT worked.
Can I eject the disk now? Nope. Well, its umounted, so I use a paperclip to remove the DVD, and put a new blank in. The new disk is not detected. (Normally sticking a blank in the drive pop-up the burner software, not something I asked for, but it happens to be what I want this time.)
Just in case its causing a problem, I kill Nautilus. Then I try to manually mount the blank disk, to see if it will at least look at it. That was 10 minutes ago. Mount is still in the process of 'mounting' and is ignoring CTRL-C and similar inducements to stop.
The drive light is on, and won't go off. My instinct at this point is to powercycle the damn thing, but I'm hoping some Linux folx here can tell me how to get it back into a sane state without resorting to that.
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Edit: I couldn't kill the attempted mount, but it eventually gave up after 15 minutes. It produced no visible error. The drive is unmounted, and ignores the front-panel eject button.
Here's a prime example: I just burned a DVD. It worked fine. I ejected the DVD and re-inserted it. I then browsed into it with Nautilus to check it out. I went into a sub-diretory and waited for a file list, and waited, and waited, and waited. I closed nautilus and looked at the directory in term. Its all there. Fine, I'll eject the disk.
It won't eject. umount says its still 'busy', but I have no idea WHAT it thinks its busy doing. I try a force umount. No go. Then a lazy umount. Okay, THAT worked.
Can I eject the disk now? Nope. Well, its umounted, so I use a paperclip to remove the DVD, and put a new blank in. The new disk is not detected. (Normally sticking a blank in the drive pop-up the burner software, not something I asked for, but it happens to be what I want this time.)
Just in case its causing a problem, I kill Nautilus. Then I try to manually mount the blank disk, to see if it will at least look at it. That was 10 minutes ago. Mount is still in the process of 'mounting' and is ignoring CTRL-C and similar inducements to stop.
The drive light is on, and won't go off. My instinct at this point is to powercycle the damn thing, but I'm hoping some Linux folx here can tell me how to get it back into a sane state without resorting to that.
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Edit: I couldn't kill the attempted mount, but it eventually gave up after 15 minutes. It produced no visible error. The drive is unmounted, and ignores the front-panel eject button.
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Date: 2006-01-24 07:11 pm (UTC)I remember the usb-storage module being a piece of crap, not so long ago, and needing to reboot once in a while so I could mount a USB storage widget (it'd work most of the time, then it wouldn't, and it'd stay broken until I rebooted).