Hi guys,

This is the problem I'm having: when I try to unmount any of my samba shares, the system tells me I can't because the "device is busy". I ran fuser on the directory, and it tells me that famd is accessing the smb share.

What is fam/famd?

Do I need it??

Can I just kill it, and unmount the share?

Thanks

earlier version of fam can cause this, with Gentoo this had been fixed with /etc/init.d/famd instead of using /etc/init.d/fam

i had the same troubles that famd has seemed to fix, or later version of fam i'm guessing, the version i'm using is 2.7.0

fam stands for 'file altercation monitor' AFAIK, the homepage is: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/

fam can basically speed up things in the GUI.

I'm using debian unstable, and the fam version I have is 2.7.0-5. So, anybody knows how to fix this in debian???

Again thanks

here's the Gentoo famd init script and fam.conf, maybe use this instead of however else you start fam:

depend() {

need portmap

}

start() {

ebegin "Starting famd"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/famd --background \
-- -T 0 -c /etc/fam.conf
eend $?

}

stop() {

ebegin "Stopping famd"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/famd
eend $?

}

here's the /etc/fam.conf:

insecure_compatibility = false
untrusted_user = nobody
local_only = false
xtab_verification = true

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Yes, you can just kill it, if you want.

It's the file alteration monitor (little typo you had there, stuNNed), which is used so that your file manager will automatically refresh/update when you move, copy, delete files in a fm window without you having to manually hit the "refresh" button to see the update.

Seems that something is somehow misconfigured, though; I don't think that should be happening. But just killing it so you can unmount is a good temporary workaround until you get it fixed.

I ended up doing "dpkg-reconfigure fam", and after that, I was able to unmount my samba shares. In any case, I don't know what triggers this behavior, but doing the above mentioned fixes the problem once it happens

Thanks all