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Registered: 2011-09-13

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gam_server blocks unmounting of volume

Time to time I am not able to unmount external disk.

̈́>lsof /media/WDC_1800GB
COMMAND    PID           USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF     NODE NAME
gam_serve 5307 marek-noncrypt  cwd    DIR   8,50     4096 71831478 /media/WDC_1800GB/backup_marek/temp/0

>ps aux |grep 5307
1000      5307  0.0  0.0  22164  1448 ?        S    22:48   0:00 /usr/lib/gamin/gam_server

what it means? Stays gam_server hanging on a specific directory? Why?

What to do? Kill gam_server? Works but quite unconvenient und hard to do for simple desktop users.

I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian wheezy.