Re: [kde] unmount usb mounted device

Am Montag, 26. Juni 2006 08:06 schrieb Martin (KDE):
Hallo,

I have discovered a realy strange thing this weekend. If I plug in
a usb stick, a usb-stick symbol pops up at my desktop. With the
latest dbus/hal stuff there is no entry in the fstab (that is ok
afaik). I can mount this usb device with no problem.

If I want to unmount this device I get no error message. There is
something going on (the cpu load is high for about three seconds)
but nothing happens. The usb devise keep being mounted. I have to
login as root to unmount the device.

With the older hal versions there was a tool to update the fstab
(fstab-sync), but this tool is remove in current versions. Am I
missing something fundamental?

KDE 3.5.3 (from cvs from last friday)
hal 0.5.7
dbus 0.62
udev 0.94
Kernel 2.6.16.20

I reply to my own post. I have done some further investigations. The
Results:

I have found the program standing behind the mount/unmount/safely
remove menue entries and tested this program.

kio_media_mounthelper /dev/sda2 works as expected and mounts my
device.

kio_media_mounthelper -u /dev/sda2 works as expected too. It unmounts
my device

kio_media_mounthelper -s /dev/sda2 does not make anything to a mounted
device (at least nothing I can see)

kio_media_mounthelper -e /dev/sda2 has the same efect as the -s one.

btw: eject /dev/sda as root unmounts my usb-stick and removes the icon
from the desktop (and the media list). The same command with my IPod
only unmount the device.

So I am a little step further, but not at the end.


Martin

Martin
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