RESOLVED:Trouble unmounting USB pendrive from KDE desktop

I've been using Arch for about 6 months, and I never used a pendrive until now. Plugging it in gives a "new media detected what do you want to do?" prompt, which is nice. Then I get a nice icon on the desktop, which is great.
When I right click on the pendrive icon and go to "safely remove" I get a KDE glass-breaking crash which states "the device was successfully unmounted but could not be ejected."
I am using udev, hal, and fam. My fstab is very very simple, no entries for cdrom or floppy, only / and swap.
Last edited by Misfit138 (2007-06-13 23:43:55)

tcmdvm wrote:I just tried your fix and it didn't improve any. I am using kdemod. Sometimes it unmounts with no errors and then again it errors. Even with the error, it seems to be reading and writing OK. It just annoying to hear the breaking glass.
Hmmm. Did you check out the file /etc/group to be sure that your user name had been added to the "disk" group? Did you log out and then log back in to make your user's membership in the group active?
You are right, reading and writing are fine, but that shattering glass sound and the extra dialog you have to click away are really annoying. It's odd that you same it works some times. When you do get an error, what exactly does it say?
To get more information you might try doing
eject <device>
from a console prompt instead of using "Safely Remove". This is basically what the kdeeject script does. For <device> use the real device node, i.e. if you have a symlink to a real /dev device, use the target, not the symlink. If it fails it will usually dump a little more diagnostic info to the console. For <device> you may also use the dynamic mount-points that are created in the /media directory when the drive is mounted automatically. You may even be able to run kdeeject directly from the console to get the same information, but I'm not sure.
Regards,
jbro

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I had some problems with filenames on usb pendrives or cds, I mean if the filename included non-latin characters (á é í ó ú ñ etc), the character is not recognized and a "?" symbol appears instead. I have used some hal policies but it didn't work, btw I use hal/udev for mounting removable media (not fstab).
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that's so strange, that rules are for mount and umount...
if u can mount automatically, u can umount at the same way...
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my WD MyBook 500GB disk from spinning down when not
in use. I bought that particular disc, because of its
ability to go to sleep when not accessed for a period
of time.
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