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WDef

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Posted: Oct. 27 2006,13:10

I'm about fed up with that umount error. It's a bug in Woody's mount.

To fix, download and install mount_2.12h-2.99woody1_i386.deb from http://ftp.fifi.org/debian-....l-linux

which is a backport from sarge to Woody.

Sideffect: I think this will disable dsl's ability to use loop-aes v1.x, but that's no great loss since that version is broken. Haven't checked that non-encrypted loops still work (eg for bootfrom iso) - I think they will.

WDef

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Posted: Nov. 02 2006,11:26

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Anyone else tried this, or is it old news?

Even if third party packages are unknowns, it does indicate how to get rid of that irritating bug: there's probably something explicit about it in Sarge's documentation/changelog for the utils-linux package or on the debian mail lists (?)

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Posted: Nov. 02 2006,12:55

Can't say I've tried it. I have aliases:
Mcd='sudo mount /dev/cdrom'
Ucd='sudo umount /dev/cdrom'
Ecd='sudo eject /dev/cdrom'

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Posted: Nov. 03 2006,11:29

Workarounds are one thing but they are not fixes. It's a broken utility, and it's been the subject of a number of queries in the past. Personally I think it's an ugly bug.

For one thing, it encourages people to mount and umount in emelfm as root.

I'd prefer dsl was free of needless bugs wherever possible.

mikshaw

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Posted: Nov. 03 2006,14:40

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For one thing, it encourages people to mount and umount in emelfm as root.

Personally I think encouraging people to do *anything* as root in emelfm is a bad idea...but what ya gonna do...

As I see it, yes it's a bug. What I think is mostly wrong with it is inconsistency. If a user cannot umount a device, the user should not have been allowed to mount that device in the first place. Either give the user both abilities, or remove both.

EDIT: now that i think about it for a minute, it's not the inconsistency that bugs me (pun intended), but the fact that if "users" is listed in fstab as an option for a particular device, whatever user mounted the device should be able to umount it. So yeah...i agree with you.

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