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...

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Feisty usb stick Cannot eject volume
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