Personally I think that having more than one filesystem on the external HDD, with one of them NTFS, is the source of the problem. I have read posts on ubuntuforums.org which are stating just the same problem.
And Bug 199005 gives an different error message than this one, so the trigger for the error message can be different and so can be the cause for the error. ** Also affects: thunar-volman (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: thunar-volman (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- [Hardy A6] remote HDD: Thunar's eject failes, Terminal works https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200936 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs