cannot eject volume

[Peter Adolphs]

If I eject a removable device (e.g. an USB harddisc or a memory stick) in Nautilus, the icon for the device on the desktops vanishes, then it immediately reappears, a Nautilus window for the device is opened, and I get the error message "Cannot eject volume". If I switch off "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged" in the Removable Drives and Media Preferences, I still get the error message but the device is unmounted. So it seems that if mounting hot-plugged removable drives is switched on, the device is unmounted and then immediately mounted again.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

No idea *how* you got to malone there. malone is the name of the bugtracker section of launchpad. Filed in the correct place.

[Peter Adolphs (futzilogik)]

Sorry, I did not see that I filed the bug for malone itself. The bug has already been reported (e.g. bug #108643).

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Peter, if you can remember the series of pages and links you followed to file the bug under "malone", please let us know in bug 88818. Thanks!

[Joacim Thomassen (joacim)]

I also experience this bug under Feisty. Bug #108643 does not represent my problem since my usb harddisk only has one partition. This bug is far more severe than bug #108643 as it probably affects more users. (those able to create more than one partition on their disk can also do a "sudo eject /media/disk" from the terminal without complaining). After reading the forum debate "Cannot unmount USB hard disk in Ubuntu 7.04" I would have guessed that bug #108643 only was a special case of this bug. Whether this bug is rooted in nautilus or hald I'm not sure of. I've attached the output from hald during a "eject" done by right clicking the disk icon in the gnome desktop.