John> Note that I am unmounting the VOB before rmvob'ing it, but not John> manually finding and kill the vob server process. The ClearCase John> 'rmview' command doesn't seem to suffer from this problem, so John> perhaps it does an "endview" command internally as part of John> deleting a view.
Why are you doing this? You should do the 'rmvob' first, then unmount the filesystem which held the Vob. This is probably why you're having problems here. You need to let ClearCase shutdown the various VOB processes before you actually unmount the filesystem holding the vob(s).
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