Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /tmp/jack busy?

[PaulNM]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> and what's with this time stamp value?
>
> When I boot this machine it gets to a point where it says something
> like 'Wiping /tmp...' and then I see a message 'Unable to remove
> ./jack' and then something about the device or directory being busy.
> When I log in as root and try to remove it by hand this is the
> results:
>
> lightning tmp # ls -la
> total 24
> drwxrwxrwt  5 root root 8192 2008-06-28 07:12 .
> drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2008-05-04 18:23 ..
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 2008-06-28 07:10 .ICE-unix
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root   40 2008-06-28 00:10 jack
> -r--r--r--  1 root root   11 2008-06-28 07:10 .X0-lock
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 2008-06-28 07:10 .X11-unix
> lightning tmp # rm -rf jack/
> rm: cannot remove directory `jack': Device or resource busy
> lightning tmp #
>
> Two questions to start:
>
> 1) If /tmp/jack is really busy then who is using it? This machine was
> cold booted 9 minutes ago and Jack (the sound connection machine)
> isn't running:
>
> lightning tmp # ps aux | grep jack
> root      5635  0.0  0.0   4096   696 pts/0    R+   07:20   0:00 grep
> --colour=auto jack
> lightning tmp #
>

Try lsof: "lsof /tmp/jack" or "lsof | grep jack" since I'm not sure if 
lsof works on directories alone.

Also, are you sure /tmp/jack is empty? Did you "ls -a" ?

> Thanks in advance,
> Mark


HTH,
	PaulNM
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