Cannot unmount volume

[Fred]

So I right-click on a partition on the desktop and select "Unmount Volume" and it spits this error to me.

Shouldn't it like offer me to type my password and unmount it or something?

If I want to unmount the volume, then it should let me, instead of say I am not privileged.
I am privileged to get updates, delete files, etc then I am privileged to unmount a volume too.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

I think this may be to do with nautilus, so
I am reassigning there.

Thanks,

James

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What sort of volume is that and how did you mount it?

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

/dev/sdb1 is Ubuntu
/dev/sdb2 is Otherstuff

It is /dev/sdb2 which wont unmount. It is a ext3 partition. On a Samsung SpinPoint T166 250 gb SATA drive.
I did not mount it, it got mounted automatically on start-up.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Is this partition in your /etc/fstab? If so, you cannot unmount it as normal user.

If it is not in your fstab, please copy&paste the output of

  gnome-umount -vbd /dev/sdb2

and do

  lshal > /tmp/hal.txt

and attach /tmp/hal.txt here.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Yes, the partition is in my /etc/fstab file.

I use this account to get updates, and edit configuration files.
So why I cant use this account for unmount stuff?

I am using the account that the installer created for me.

[Tchalvak (tchalvak)]

For me, all the hard drive partitions in nautilus display eject icons, but are unable to be unmounted by the non-root user. Attempts to hit the eject icon result in the "Cannot unmount volume" message. I think that such partitions should either not display the unusable eject icon, or require the unlocking administrative password.

This is in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, AMD64.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.