Comment 0 for bug 155473

/media/.hal-mtab is not cleaned when hald is started. Therefore, it may still contain old entries from before a system crash, for example. This may lead to hal thinking that mounted devices belong to user A, which in turn leads to the impossibility for user B to umount this very device, although it was mounted by user B.

In that state, /media/.hal-mtab looks like this: (user 1000 can't umount although it mounted the device (in kde, umounting results in the following error: "hal-storage-can-unmount-volumes-mounted-by-others refused uid 1000"))

/dev/sdb1 1001 0 vfat noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1001,noatime,utf8,shortname=lower /media/LACIE

/dev/sdb1 1000 0 vfat nosuid,nodev,flush,uid=1000,noatime,utf8,shortname=lower /media/disk

Maybe the file should be deleted when starting hald? Or a check should occur when writing to the file whether the device is set already as mounted.