[Hardy] Ejecting SD "inappropriate ioctl" error

[mach6]

Hi all,

I'm using Hardy Heron Xubuntu 8.0.4.2 with 2.6.24-23-generic kernel, on an Asus W7J laptop with a Ricoh PCI CARD READER.

My Sandisk SD card is well recognized and correctly mounted with reading and writing permissions........but at the end when I right-click on the SD icon on the Desktop and choose "Eject".......

....an error is thrown....."inappropriate ioctl for device"

I think it's not related to "EJECT" command, because I can eject normally the same SD card if I mount that through an external USB CARD READER.

I think that error is related to sdhci module.....that is the module I've found loaded with the lsmod command.

Is it possible to change the right-click "eject-button" with a more useful "unmount-button"?

...so I can unmount SD without errors and no pain....

..I know that there is a file named 20-storage-methods.fdi under /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ and that contains a schema that is related to hal-eject-command, but I don't understand how to manage that....

Can anyone help me?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards

Gullusci Massimiliano

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in hal.
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[mach6 (3384900078-tim)]

Thank you for your help, I'll attach "dmesg" output and xsession-errors content soon.

In the meantime, I've found a workaround that helped me, but I don't know if it is a correct choice to solve the problem.

I've modified my

/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi [I'll attach you also this file soon].

...at the line where "eject" command is required for all types of storage devices, I've substituted the "hal-storage-eject" command with "hal-storage-unmount".

With this change the first time I've ejected my SD, hal noticed me : "Can't eject [nameofdevice]. According to hal the device has been unmounted".
After this notification all the times I try to eject SD all works fine without notifications.

When I try to eject CDROM or the same SD plugged into my external CARD READER through USB cable all works well like before the change I've made.

Have I messed something that I don't see?....
Is that a real solution to my problem?
What do you think?

Thanks

see you soon

Best reagards

Gullusci Massimiliano

[mach6 (3384900078-tim)]

This is my xsession-errors

[mach6 (3384900078-tim)]

This is my dmesg

[mach6 (3384900078-tim)]

Hi all,

I've noticed another strange thing about eject of my SD.

In standard configuration if I use xfce4-mount-device-plugin to mount and dismount my SD plugged into the notebook internal reader, all works ok with no errors....but with my workaround descripted above I've no errors using right-click command "eject".....but an unmount error if I use the dismount command of xfce4-mount-device-plugin.

Thanks all,

Good day

Gullusci Massimiliano

[mach6 (3384900078-tim)]

Errata Corridge....

NO PROBLEMS with xfce4-mount-plugin!!!

Here it is the paragraph of the 20-storage-methods.fdi with the change-workaround I've mentioned above....

<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
       <match key="volume.linux.is_device_mapper" bool="false">
         <append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Eject</append>
         <append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
         <append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
         <append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-unmount</append>
       </match>
     </match>

Good day

Gullusci Massimiliano

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[mach6 (3384900078-tim)]

Hi,

I don't know if it helps....but I've also tried to run "eject /media/mySDCARDname" in a terminal and the "ioctl error"(reported in the title) was not the real error....it's only the last error.

I think that the "ioctl error" is related to the last try that eject does (.....eject -t /media/???......) and it's not the real error, because is thrown another error not reported in XFCE window alert.......:

It reports: "not an sg device, or old sg driver "

I hope this report can help.

Thanks all.

Gullusci Massimiliano

[dino99 (9d9)]

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal/