Ubuntu
gnome-volume-manager package

External USB Drive won't unmount cleanly for user

Bug #24845 reported by aysiu
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #11517: Can not eject removable devices. Edit Remove
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gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

When the user unmounts it graphically or through terminal, the following error
appears:

Unable to eject media

eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument

If it gets unmounted with sudo, it unmounts just fine.
The problem does not seem to occur for all devices, and it also does not seem to
occur in Kubuntu

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=84262: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=84262

See original description
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Bah, so many duplicates about not being able to eject a device - Ben, do you
have any idea why sometimes the ioctl() fails and sometimes not?

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

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