I solved this by installing the pmount package. umount still does not work, but pumount does. (pumount tells hald to unmount the drive. hald runs as root and performs the permission check itself.)
I was positively surprised that eject uses pumount by default if it is available. I would still prefer it if the standard umount command worked as well, though... (Why doesn't ubuntu use the fstab-sync mechanism with HAL?) -- /bin/umount does not work for automounted USB flash drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133313 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
