Remounting of removable volues doesn't work

[Lukas Sabota]

When your unmount a removable device, like a usb disk, the icon will remain in nautilus until you physically remove it. This is rather pointless, because you cannot remount the device until you take it out and put it back in. Attempting to do so will give you this error:
mount: no medium found

mount: no medium found

error: could not execute pmount

The optimal solution would be to allow remounting of devices, as removing and reinserting is redundant

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Are you sure it stays until you physically remove it? When ejecting it the icon is dropped from the desktop on my dapper installation

[Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318)]

I'm using Ubuntu Dapper. The icon is removed from the desktop, but it still exists in Computer.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Right, that's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324839

Marking as to look on for dapper

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

The Upstream developers have a patch ready at: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2006-February/msg00002.html

[Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318)]

Any work on getting this patch committed?

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

I'll take a closer look at it right now

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

Well this is fixed now indirectly as you won't see the volume/device anymore after unmounting it and have to remove/insert again to let it show up...
"Computer" should list unmounted devices/volumes too again soon so we'll see if this bug still exists

The patch from the mail (or better something better) should already be in our gnome-vfs

[Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318)]

Closing, as this has been fixed indirectly.

[Andrea Garbarini (garba)]

problem is, now the cdrom drive icon is no longer displayed in "computer" if no cd is mounted...

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Yes, but this was actually a desired effect. I don't say that it is ideal for all users (since they might have become accustomed to the empty CD icon), but it's not a unintended bug.

[Andrea Garbarini (garba)]

yep but we're losing some functionality, for example you no longer can eject the cd tray through nautilus, and being the lazy git i am that's one major issue for me =) just joking, regards, andre