(closed)Cannot unmount usb drive from dolphin/device manager

[snappwrench]

Hi all, been searching my butt off to find answers on this so hopefully someone can help. I recently fixed a problem concerning ntfs conf. and messed with the automount settings in device settings. Once i disabled the automount for usb devices again and returned things to normal, i now have an issue with unmounting usb drives through dolphin and device manager. I can unmount internal drives through dolphin but not external, the message i get says "org.freedesktop.hal.device.volume.NotMountedByHal : Device to unmount is not in/media/.hal-mtab so it is not mounted by Hal". The external drive automounts but i can't unmount it unless i use disk utility or terminal. Not a huge problem but one that bugs. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[dibl]

Re: Cannot unmount usb drive from dolphin/device manager

I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but I've been seeing a bug since KDE 4.6.5 in which a USB stick will not "safely remove" from Dolphin. But, if you close dolphin (all instances), then use the USB device "notifier" on the panel, it will eject correctly.

[snappwrench]

Re: Cannot unmount usb drive from dolphin/device manager

Yeah that doesn't work on my setup, everything works fine except usb drives. The only way i can unmount then is through terminal or disk utility so i'm sure it's a setting i've missed or something or maybe an entry i need to delete. Kinda stumped with this one.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Cannot unmount usb drive from dolphin/device manager

I've seen this when an improper dismount left a directory under /media.

Just for giggles, with nothing external mounted, look in /media and see if there's any subdirectories.

[snappwrench]

Re: Cannot unmount usb drive from dolphin/device manager

I took a look and found nothing but i think i figured it out. I think nautilus has been auto mounting as i'm running plasma desktop through ubuntu 10.10 so i changed the settings and just need to restart so i'll check back and let you know what happened. Thank you for your responces, it's been helping.

[snappwrench]

Re: Cannot unmount usb drive from dolphin/device manager

Ok that wasn't it. Another program is auto mounting my external drive and i have auto mount disabled in settings so i'll keep looking.

[snappwrench]

Re: Cannot unmount usb drive from dolphin/device manager

Ok so it seems that ntfs-3g is mounting the external. The only conf file i can find is mtab, as the fstab doesn't show the device.
/dev/sde1 /media/Tag\040Along fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_p ermissions 0 0

Not sure if i can add noauto to that or not, or just remove the entry.

[snappwrench]

Re: Cannot unmount usb drive from dolphin/device manager

Oh well, did a fresh install and fixed the problem but i would still like to figure this out for future reference. It's not the only time it's happened so stumped for now but a fresh install did the trick so thanks for the replies all.