Package: gnome-volume-manager Version: 1.5.15-1 Severity: important Hi,
When unmounting a removable device by right-clicking on its icon in Nautilus and choosing "umount volume", Gnome immediately removes the icon from the desktop and marks the device as uumounted in the "Computer" window of Nautilus as if umount had completed. umount is actually still running in the background and may require to wait dozens of seconds before the device can be unplugged safely. This leads to dramatic data loss since one can expect Gnome to report umount completion safely. When your USB drive does not have a light to indicate that some data is being transfered, the only way to be sure that the device can be unplugged safely is to look for the mountpoint entry in the output of 'mount'. Note that the output of /proc/mounts is not safe since the kernel removes the entry from there when umount starts, not when it completes. I am glad that Debian does not define /etc/mtab as a symlink to /proc/mounts as some distrib do, since the output of 'mount' would not be safe either. Gnome should wait until umount has returned, not until umount has started. Thanks, Brice -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc4=shepherd Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages gnome-volume-manager depends on: ii gconf2 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii hal 0.5.7-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.0.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgksuui1.0-1 1.0.7-1 a graphical fronted to su library ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.9-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.14.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.0-2 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.16-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal1 0.5.7-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.24.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii pmount 0.9.9-2 mount removable devices as normal ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gnome-volume-manager recommends: ii gnome-media 2.12.0-3 The GNOME Media Utilities pn gthumb <none> (no description available) ii nautilus-cd-burner 2.12.3-1 CD Burning front-end for Nautilus ii totem 1.2.1-3 A simple media player for the Gnom -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
