[opensuse] Device notifier sort of broken?



Put this in the Suse forums, but no joy, so thought I would try here...

Have installed 11.2 and basically pretty impressed, but...
a few little problems starting to show. The current one is device
notifier (or an associate), which will not allow any device to be
unplugged once it has been inserted.
If I insert a CD/DVD, or plug in any USB drive, and immediately try and
unplug, I always get the message "Could not unmount the device. One or
more files on this device are open within an application" (or similar).

I get no output from :
john@boss:/> fuser -m /dev/sdd1
john@boss:/>

OR

john@boss:/> lsof /dev/sdd1
john@boss:/>

and, yes, it does work if I list other drives, and it is the correct
device.... :-)
But,can unmount at the command line:
john@boss:/> umount -v /dev/sdd1
john@boss:/>
Looks like the device notifier may be broke...? How to fix?
Thanks, John.

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