Some of the recent postings here have prompted me to re-test some of the assertions I made in my March 31st bug report.
I first of all try unmounting the following devices from the gui (BEFORE trying Martin Pitt's suggestion): External USB hard drive: PROBLEM REPLICATED. Right-click on desktop icon; left click on item 10 on context menu (which reads "Eject"): problem re-occurs. USB Pen Drive: NOT REPLICATED. Right-click on desktop icon; left click on item 10 on context menu (which reads "Eject"): device successfully unmounted. CD-ROM: NOT REPLICATED. Right-click on desktop icon; left click on item 10 on context menu (which reads "Eject"): CD successfully unmounted and ejected. I THEN try Martin's suggestion: sudo mv /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-storage-policy.fdi ~ followed by rebooting. THIS SOLVES THE PROBLEM WITH EXTERNAL USB HARD DRIVES: Right-click on desktop icon; left click on item 10 on context menu (which now reads "Unmount Volume"): device successfully unmounted, with NO ERRORS REPORTED. I next move the .fdi file back to /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/, and reboot: The USB External Hard Drive Problem RETURNS. I then repeat Martin's suggestion, moving the .fdi file back to my /home directory, and try again - this time WITHOUT REBOOTING: the USB External Hard Drive Problem is ONCE AGAIN SOLVED. Finally, I check the properties of the (now much-traveled!) 10-storage- policy.fdi file: it was modified on Fri 30 Mar 2007 at 19:22:05 BST, which is completely consistent with when this bug started affecting me. Curious that for me at least, this problem (prior to implementing Martin's workaround) now seems to be confined to External USB Hard Drives. I'm still pretty sure that back on 31st March, I was having these problems trying to unmount all kinds of removable devices / other media from my AMD64 system. Seems that other people have been having more general problems too... -- Feisty usb stick Cannot eject volume https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99538 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
