loopback won't unmount?!

[Brad De Vries]

--- Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer at surbrunn.net>
wrote:
> Humph. Well, how about the processes. Are all shells
> accounted for? Every
> process?
> 
> I don't know how to determine the current directory
> of a running process.
> But that must be your problem-
> 
> On Fri, 23 May 2003 12:07:56 -0400 (EDT)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 23 May 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 23 May 2003 10:36:03 -0400
> > > Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Friday 23 May 2003 9:17 am, someone
> claiming to be Net Llama!
> > > > wrote:<snip>
> > > > > Both come up dry.  any other ideas?
> > >
> > > What, exactly, does umount report? Anything in
> /var/log or thereabouts
> > > when you umount? I had a problem like this when
> mounting one time (ok,
> > > not
> > 
> > nothing new appears in /var/log/messages.
> > 
> > > exactly like but for my suggestion it is). I ran
> the command with
> > > strace(ltrace -S for those so inclined) and saw
> that the OS in fact
> > > returned a more informative error than was
> reported. I was then able
> > > to approach from a different angle.
> > >
> > > So, what does:
> > >
> > > 	strace -f -o /tmp/ick.txt umount /mountpoint
> > >
> > > put in /tmp/ick.txt
> > 
> > see attached file.
> > 
> > -- 
> >
>
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> > Lonni J Friedman				netllama at linux-sxs.org
> > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo		    
> http://netllama.ipfox.com
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Roger Oberholtzer
> Sunny Stockholm

Have you tried something like:
ls -l /proc/*/cwd

which should show you the current working directory
for each process on the system?

Brad.

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