Safely remove does not work if you have ttf files in the device

[Francisco]

Binary package hint: kdebase-kio-plugins

If the device has any .ttf (true type font) file for which there has been generated
a thumbnail, kio_thumbnail keeps hanged to these files and so safely remove does
not work. You can check this with: fuser -v /media/<media_name>/*.
Maybe other file types will trigger the problem, but so far I've seen it only with ttf files.

[Francisco (frantas)]

After some testing, I see that kio_thumbnail eventually exits after about
7 minutes. Only after that, safely remove work again.

[Guillaume ZITTA (zitta-guillaume)]

Hi, thanks for bug report and sorry for the delay.

I've copied a ttf file to a usb key and reproduced your problem

here my fuser result :

gza@guillaume:~$ fuser -v /media/disk/*

                     USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/media/disk/webdings.ttf:
                     gza 20756 ....m kio_thumbnail

[Premier (premiersullivan)]

In the future, in the case of the kde autounmounter, would should have an option on the gui that gets to the effect of "Remove this device anyway". If the requires killing the processes, thats okay.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This is still a problem in KDE4.

[sunday (n-h)]

Version: (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package
OS: Linux

When you access a folder on a usb drive, say with pictures on it, and you select the preview option in the dolphin toolbar, you won't be able to unmount the volume until *all* the previews are generated. This really kicks in on slow usb connections where larger previews are to be generated (say a thumbnail image of a 3 mb picture)

I think the volume should be unmountable even when not all thumbnails have been generated so on doesn't have to wait for thumbnails' creation finish just to unmount the drive.

[Dominik-tritscher-l (dominik-tritscher-l)]

I can confirm this issue using KDE4.3beta2. If Dolphin is open showing the content of the pen drive, i'm unable to unmount with dolphin or device manager plasmoid. If I close Dolphin, the pen drive's LED still indicates file system access (indexing?, generating previews?) but i can unmount the device via the device manager.
Dolphin should also be able to unmount the device in that situation.

[Iivanich (iivanich)]

Same issue using kde 4.3.0 in gentoo.

[X-dominic (x-dominic)]

This bug is probably related to bug #207120.

[FiNeX (finex)]

*** Bug 217481 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[FiNeX (finex)]

*** Bug 170290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[FiNeX (finex)]

*** Bug 207120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Michiel Helvensteijn (mhelvens)]

I'm experiencing the same problem. Not only with USB drives, but with optical media as well. I'm using KDE 4.4.5 on Gentoo. When I open the mounted directory (containing some video files) with Dolphin, lsof will show me several kio_thumb processes using the device, and I will be unable to unmount it until kio_thumb is finished (which can take several minutes) or until I manually kill the processes.

[Bausparfuchs (bausparfuchs)]

Same Problem for me. Gentoo on stable kde 4.4

[Dario Andres (andresbajotierra)]

*** Bug 238771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Closing in favor of upstream report.

[DA (adawit)]

Cannot reproduce in KDE 4.7.4. Feel free to reopen this ticket if that is not the case for you.