diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0aa9404..29a2caf 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ Version 1.4
 
  . Skip newline when reading in klog messages
  . Use lseek64() instead of llseek() which is deprecated these days
+ . Close symbol file before returning with 0 when an error occurred
+   while reading it.  This will enable systems to umount that
+   partition with no open file descriptor left over.
  . Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
    - Fixed bug that caused klogd to die if there is no sym_array available.
    - When symbols are expanded, print the line twice.  Once with
diff --git a/ksym.c b/ksym.c
index 3c74b66..0a6d715 100644
--- a/ksym.c
+++ b/ksym.c
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@
  *
  * Sun Feb 21 22:27:49 EST 1999: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
  *	Fixed bug that caused klogd to die if there is no sym_array available.
+ *
+ * Tue Sep 12 23:48:12 CEST 2000: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.ffis.de>
+ *	Close symbol file in InitKsyms() when an error occurred.
  */
 
 
@@ -247,6 +250,7 @@ extern int InitKsyms(mapfile)
 		if ( AddSymbol(address, sym) == 0 )
 		{
 			Syslog(LOG_ERR, "Error adding symbol - %s.", sym);
+			fclose(sym_file);
 			return(0);
 		}