It should be noted this bug is not specific to GNOME. When I'm in KDE,
I am able to 'remove the device' safely from konqueror but my IPod still
gives the impression that it is communicating with my computer (i.e. it
says 'do not remove device'). I don't mind if this isn't really an
issue about transferring data but I fear that one of these times I'm
going to unplug my IPod after having successful unmounted it from
konqueror and have no data left on it IPod. Benign or malignant, I
don't know.
Cheers,
Chris Desjardins
MSc Candidate
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2E9
Cesare Leonardi wrote:
Christopher Desjardins wrote:
I've noticed that my IPod also experiences this and after I've
eventually ejected it the device stills gives the impression that it
is communicating with my computer (i.e. it says do not remove device
on the screen of the IPod). I know that at least Ubuntu and Fedora
have figured out how to properly communicate with an IPod so that it
can be safely removed (i.e. that warning goes away and my battery
icon comes on).
I think that this problem is not specific to iPod but more generally
related to removable devices. I think it is related to bug #367836
that, probably, happens to few people, since nobody has replied to it
since may...
On my Debian Sid, i have learned that actually i can't trust on the
"unmount volume" function of Nautilus: when the volume icon disappear,
i can't trust that it is really unmounted, since many times i have
verified that a mount command reports that it is *not* mounted yet!
I can suggest you to follow that procedure to verify what i've said:
1) open a terminal (will be useful later);
2) plug-in an usb stick (probably an USB1 key or a USB1 controller is
better because of the lesser speed: see later why);
3) copy large amount of data from the hard disk to the usb device;
4) right-click on the device and select "Unmount volume" and wait that
it disappear;
5) run "mount" on the terminal to see if the device is present (and
probably it will be).
It's clear that the icon is removed before the buffer is flushed on
the usb device. And worst, sometimes i've seen that the flush command
is not given right after the removal user request, but sometimes later
(this is clear if you pay attention to the usb activity led).
So, what i do to be sure that i can remove safely my device is:
1) open a terminal;
2) *before* unmount the device, run the "sync" command and wait;
3) right-click on the device and select "Unmount volume" and wait that
it disappear;
Now if you check running "mount", you can see that your device is
correctly unmounted.
I don't know how to solve this problem inside Gnome, but i hope that
these informations could be useful in some way to solve this
(important) bug.
Regards.
Cesare.
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