Leopard will not always unmount DMG's?

Mindflux

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Feb 1, 2008

• #1

Every now and then Leopard gets lazy and unmounting/ejecting a DMG quits working. I cant CMD-E it, right click eject it, drag to trash.

The only thing that works is:
diskutil unmountDisk /Volumes/VolumeName

or

umount /Volumes/VolumeName


Killing Finder and re-starting it fixes this. Odd.

 

M

MarkMS

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 1, 2008

• #2

I have the same problem as well, but it's not often that it happens. I usually drag the file into Trash and if it stays on the desktop, I just log out and back in and it's gone.

I have a feeling it's just a bug, but I'm not sure.

 

S

stomer

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 2, 2008

• #3

Mindflux said:

Every now and then Leopard gets lazy and unmounting/ejecting a DMG quits working. I cant CMD-E it, right click eject it, drag to trash.

The only thing that works is:
diskutil unmountDisk /Volumes/VolumeName

or

umount /Volumes/VolumeName


Killing Finder and re-starting it fixes this. Odd.

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This happens to me too. And as you mentioned, killing Finder normally fixes the problem.

 

GoKyu

macrumors 65816

• Feb 2, 2008

• #4

This happened to me last week too, but I was too much in "Linux mode" and was looking for the /etc/cdrom to unmount...so all mountable volumes will always be under /Volumes?

Thanks for the tip,

-Bryan