"requires_eject" property doesn't work for Nokia 770

[Crispin Flowerday]

I have a Nokia 770 internet tablet, which can connect to the computer via a USB
cable, and when it does so, it exposes the RS-MMC card to the computer.

There was a patch added to the Ubuntu HAL in 0.5.3-0ubuntu8 which always sets
the "storage.requires_eject" property on the storage device. This causes
nautilus to display an error dialog when the volume is unmounted:

--
Unable to eject media
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
--

[Crispin Flowerday (crispin-flowerday-deactivatedaccount)]

I managed to work around this using the following XML, which I put in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-nokia770.fdi

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <!-- Don't eject the Nokia 770 -->
  <device>
    <match key="info.category" string="storage">
      <match key="storage.bus" string="usb">
        <match key="storage.model" string="770">
          <merge key="storage.requires_eject" type="bool">false</merge>
        </match>
      </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

[Fred Blaise (chapeaurouge)]

I have the same issue for my iPod.
I will adapt the workaround below to match the iPod strings.

Thanks.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is a long-standing and well-known bug, unfortunately it seems to be
nontrivial to fix.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11517.