Unmounting external hd doesn't work

[Felix Heinonen]

When I click remove volume in gnome, nothing happens. The device icon disappears, but the HD is still running. So basicly nothing happens. I have a Buffalo Drivestation.
I found this interesting line in syslog
Apr 22 14:50:07 xxx hald: unmounted /dev/sdb1 from '/media/HD-HBU2' on behalf of uid 1000
lsusb:
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0411:002a MelCo., Inc.

[Martin Andersson (martande)]

I am having almost the same problem. When I (in gnome, via right click on the desktop icon) unmounts/ejects the drive a message pops up telling me the eject failed, and then the drive is remounted. I Have a Western Digital 250gb MyBook Essensial.

I have been running Feisty since early alpha and this behavior is quite new 1-2 weeks old or so. i.e. Earlier alpha versions of Feisty did not have this bug thus working as expected.

[Felix Heinonen (fheinonen)]

Forgot to choose ubuntu as distribution

[Alessio (alessioballarin)]

I Have the same problem with my seagate USB HD. When i try to unmount a pop up tell me it is impossible to do it, and the HD is automatically remount. I got this problem passing to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

[Felix Heinonen (fheinonen)]

Tried unmountimg my memory bar and it worked!
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 090c:1000 Feiya Technology Corp. Memory Bar
But unmounting the hd doesn't still work.

[Martin Andersson (martande)]

This seems to have been fixed with the latest hal (from ubuntu-backports) update. Everything now works as expected with my drive.
hal, libhal and related packages version: 0.5.9-1ubuntu2~feisty1

[Alessio (alessioballarin)]

Ok!!! The problem seems to be solved with backports update.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Beginning with the Hardy Heron 8.04 development cycle, all open Ubuntu kernel bugs need to be reported against the "linux" kernel package. We are automatically migrating this bug to the new "linux" package. However, development has already began for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. It would be helpful if you could test the upcoming release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . If the issue still exists, please update this report by changing the Status of the "linux" task from "Incomplete" to "New". We appreciate your patience and understanding as we make this transition. Thanks!