mediascanner-service-2.0 prevents ejecting, unmounting & or formatting usb drives in a desktop session

[Doug McMahon]

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While generally worthless unity8 was purported to be available to test on 16.04, the service is installed via a recommend

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: mediascanner2.0 0.111+16.04.20160317-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.6.0-040600rc2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Apr 25 09:32:14 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-04 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160401)
SourcePackage: mediascanner2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Florin Gherendi (florin-gf)]

I also have this problem with 16.04LTS since a very long time, and many others that are not even worked on (kernel panics on shutdown, systemd taking forever to shutdown mysql or other random services, sticky notes no longer working, etc etc). And the irony is that most of the times the bug reports are closed for "lack of activity".
Due to the increasing number of problems occuring from one LTS to another LTS version of Ubuntu, and most of the bugs being solved in the following release but never in the LTS version, I don't see a reason in calling it LTS (Long Time Support); and I also don't have time to backport the solutions or replace the whole distribution every time a bug is solved, so I am seriously beginning to think to migrate to a cutting-edge pure Debian or even Linux From Scratch and keep it like that; it would cause less trouble and less waste of time.

Florin