Problem unmounting /home
 

Hello,

I've used all Mandriva version since 10.1, but after upgrading to 2007 I started getting messages about problems unmounting /home when I shut down the computer. I had this same problem on 2 different computers. I have no problems using /home partition besides this. Here is the error message:

Unmounting file systems: umount2: device or resource busy
mount: /home device busy
mount2: device or resource busy
mount: /home device busy

Any ideas?

thanks,

It's likely just what it says... you still an application accessing /home or open /home files
Have a look at the lsof command. It should help you to narrow down the cause.

cheers:)

And if you don't want to wait/explore, following command executed as root will kill all the processes that are accessing /home:

fuser -mk /home

Good one . Hadn't seen this before!

ok, to make sure I would have as little possible software running on my computer I exited KDE to the command line. Then I issued the command:

lsof | grep /home/felipe

To isolate on lsof

And it shows nothing. And right after I do a "reboot" command and I get the device busy message...

If KDE is open I see hundreds of things after executing the command above.

Any other ideas??

I can't beliave anyone else is having this problem, because I searched this forum and found nothing about it. I install Mandriva 2007 on 3 different machine and have the same problem on all. And on 2 of them I used 2006 without problems.