Re: [gentoo-user] kded4 keeping a flash drive busy

[Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com>]

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2013/4/3 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

> On 03/04/2013 20:47, Francisco Ares wrote:
> > 2013/4/3 Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com
> > <mailto:yohan.pereira@gmail.com>>
> >
> >     On 03/04/13 at 10:56am, Francisco Ares wrote:
> >     > Hello All
> >     >
> >     > Issuing a "fuser -m [mount-point]" shows that kded4 keeps using
> >     the flash
> >     > drive device, so I am not allowed to umount it.
> >     >
> >     > Any hints on how to solve this?  The most relevant search result
> is in
> >     > http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=99419&start=15  , but I
> just
> >     > can't believe that I have to kill any process to make something so
> >     usual.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks
> >     > Francisco
> >
> >     Hi,
> >       This is just a hunch but do you have nepomuk and friends enabled ?
> >     If so in the nepomuk server configuration is ignore all removable
> media
> >     set?
> >
> >     If that's not the case then maybe look under the service manager and
> try
> >     disabling services that look like they might want to access your
> flash
> >     drive. When I glanced at that list the only one that might be guilty
> is
> >     the Nepomuk Search Module.
> >
> >     --
> >
> >     - Yohan Pereira
> >
> >     The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
> >     between a mermaid and a seal.
> >                     -- Mark Twain
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am sorry, I think I did not make myself clear.
> >
> > The only process using the flash drive is "kded4".  The link I sent was
> > the closest search result about the same issue (not able to umount a
> > flash drive).
>
> How do you mount the flash drive?
>
> I find dolphin gives me quite different behaviours between using the
> Device Notifier widget, clicking a stored shortcut in dolphin's left
> sidebar and the old fashioned way on the command line.
>
> It's not unexpected that kded4 is the process using the mount point; the
> kioslaves are plugins and the worker process that uses them is a child
> of kded4 (and keeps the name kded4). My next step would be to record
> what ps says about the process before and after trying to umount it the
> first time.
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
>
>
Thanks, gonna try that.

Francisco
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