umount errors (patch)

[Adrian Bridgett]

This is on gutsy, all up to date.

Trying to umount (as a normal user) a dav directory yields this:

/sbin/umount.davfs:
  can't find mount.davfs-process with pid 26262;
  trying to unmount anyway.
  you propably have to remove /var/run/mount.davfs/home-abridgett-dav.pid manually

it is successfully unmounted.

Looking at the code, it tries to do "ps -p (pid) -C (mpoint)" which errors here (but not on a Debian etch box BTW) with "ERROR: Unsupported option (BSD syntax)"

I'll attach a patch imminently.

[Adrian Bridgett (adrian-bridgett)]

patch for problem

[Mb (mb-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Providing a debdiff.

[Michele Angrisano (darksun88-deactivatedaccount)]

In debdiff there is an update of Standards-Version. It's better to wait Debian in this case.
Unsubscribe u-u-s. After made the new debdiff, subsribe it another time.

[Mb (mb-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your comment Michele.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package davfs2 - 1.2.1-3ubuntu1

---------------
davfs2 (1.2.1-3ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/control, debian/rules,
    debian/patches/00list:
    - added dpatch support
  * debian/patches/umount_errors.dpatch:
    - patch to fix umount errors (LP: #178650)
      (patch from Adrian Bridgett)
  * debian/control:
    - updated Maintainer field

 -- Mario Bonino <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:11:59 +0100

[Mb (mb-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I've forwarded the patch to Debian.

[Mb (mb-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Adrian, can you have a look at the Debian bug ?

[Adrian Bridgett (adrian-bridgett)]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:54:43 -0000 (-0000), Mario Bonino wrote:
> Adrian, can you have a look at the Debian bug ?

Hmm - that's quite odd - it shows the command line arguments to me on
sid at least.

Aha - it's because I have: "I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS=1" set in the
environment.

~$ ps -p 5217
  PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
   5217 ? S 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -lf
/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.wlan0.l
~$ set |grep PS
GROUPS=()
I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS=1
PS1='\[\033]2;\w\007\033[35m\]\w\$\[\033[39m\] '
PS2='> '
PS4='+ '
~$ unset I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS
~$ ps -p 5217
  PID TTY TIME CMD
   5217 ? 00:00:00 dhclient

That explains that then!

Adrian
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[Alex Zvoleff (azvoleff)]

I still see this error on Hardy using davfs2 1.2.1-3ubuntu1:

/sbin/umount.davfs:
  can't find mount.davfs-process with pid 15429;
  trying to unmount anyway.
  you propably have to remove /var/run/mount.davfs/mnt-CSWebDAV.pid manually

Although, as said before, it successfully unmounts.

[krouskop (krouskop)]

I can confirm the bug is still around in Hardy. (I'm experiencing it too).

davfs2 version: 1.2.1

Error message encountered:

can't find mount.davfs-process with pid 4935;
  trying to unmount anyway.
  you propably have to remove /var/run/mount.davfs/tmp-site.pid manually

(Also fwiw, "propably" is misspelled. ... I assume that should be "probably.")

Finally, I'm not sure what the stuff about the I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS env. var. is all about above in the thread, but I do -not- have this env. var. set. ([$set | grep BROKEN_PS] comes back w/ no output)

[Peter Bubenik (peter-bubenik)]

I am also experiencing this bug in Hardy using davfs2 1.2.1-3ubuntu1

can't find mount.davfs-process with pid 6344;
  trying to unmount anyway.
  you propably have to remove /var/run/mount.davfs/mnt-campusDrive.pid manually
umount: /mnt/campusDrive: device is busy
umount: /mnt/campusDrive: device is busy

[linuxball (linuxball)]

I'm running Hardy with davfs2 package 1.2.1-3ubuntu1 and I can confirm what Adrian has posted:

If environment variable I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS is not set then "umount <davfs_mount_point>" will output the error message:

  $ umount /home/reimer/gmx
  /sbin/umount.davfs:
    can't find mount.davfs-process with pid 27246;
    trying to unmount anyway.
    you propably have to remove /var/run/mount.davfs/home-reimer-gmx.pid manually

Setting the environment variable I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS can be used as work around for this bug. I set an alias in .bashrc to do this:

  alias umount='I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS=1 umount'

Now umount works:
  $ umount /home/reimer/gmx
  /sbin/umount.davfs: waiting while mount.davfs (pid 27659) synchronizes the cache ... OK