[lug] Mutex destroy failure - USB Card Reader
Trent Turner
trentturner at comcast.net
Sat Mar 27 09:43:46 MST 2004
Good Morning!
I am trying to get a USB SD/MMC card reader to work under Fedora Core 1
- Krud 2004-03
I get the following message after adding a line to /etc/fstab for the
reader:
mount Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
Can anyone help me get past this error?
TIA,
Trent
Here are some more details:
I have followed the instructions at this website:
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/personal/cf-linux (THANKS Greg for very
clear & easy to follow instructions!)
Basically, it involved installing sg3_utils, & running sg_scan & sg_map
to determine the device name(?) of my reader. I found it in all the
prescribed ways:
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices - showed the reader as a device known to
linux
sg_scan -i - showed the device /dev/sg0 as a USB Disk Drive with lots
of unknown parameters
sg_map - showed /dev/sg0 mapped to /dev/sda
so then to be able to mount the device, i got into root, edited my
/etc/fstab with the following line:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat noauto,user 0 0
Upon exiting the editor (Kate - I have yet to master a real linux
editor & prob wont given my keyboard layout ;-) I got the following
tacky message:
mount Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
I had used 'su' to get into root from a shell console & then edited the
file w/'kate /etc/fstab'. I did this to avoid having to login as root.
It took me a while to figure out that this message was a result of
updating /etc/fstab. Since I was in root, I'm thinking this is not an
access problem to the /mnt directory.
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