External USB disk appears but it is no longer connected
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
ubuntu 14.04 LTS
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
gnome-disk-
3) What you expected to happen
When I had "safely removed" the disk, the disk would not appear in the utility again until I had connected it again.
4) What happened instead
Yesterday I looked at the external disk in gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0. When I finished, I clicked the "power off" icon.
That caused:
1. The partitions of that disk to disappear;
2. The disk to appear a second time in the list within gnome-disk-utility, with all its original partitions; and
3. The "Ubuntu has experienced an error" application to start.
I right-clicked on the disk in the Launcher, selected "Save removal", and it worked.
I plugged the disk's USB cable in again, and it mounted as normal.
I then repeated exactly the steps above, except I might not have got the "Ubuntu has experienced an error" message.
I did it all a third time.
I then left the computer for about 10 hours.
I just started using the computer again 30 minutes ago. The external USB disk does not appear in the Launcher. I started gnome-disk-utility to look at an internal disk, and the external USB disk still appears in gnome-disk-utility despite the fact that it is not connected.
It is the dodgy version of the disk that appears (per step 2 above), with no partitions and only the text "No Media" where the partition descriptions would be - see screenshot http://
| el_gallo_azul (el-gallo-azul) wrote | #1 |
