Argh, forgot to mention that the unmounting actually does work, despite the error dialog. So the bug is that the error dialog appears for no reason.
Also, the "writing data to device" notification bubble never disappears unless manually clicked on. ** Summary changed: - (feisty) unmounting a device icon on desktop fails + (feisty) unmounting a device icon on desktop gives an error dialog -- (feisty) unmounting a device icon on desktop gives an error dialog https://launchpad.net/bugs/95368 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs