"Cannot eject volume"

Oblong_Cheese · 2007-01-29 03:26:21

Hi all, I've recently started using Arch Linux and have had a little bit of trouble configuring GNOME and udev to work how I want them to. So far, after following the guide in the wiki, I've been able to get usb devices auto-mounting, just how I like.

I've run into a problem though, which appears to affect both usb devices and my CD-ROM. When I right-click on a usb device on my desktop and select "Unmount", or push the eject button on my CD-ROM, I get a generic looking error message that says simply: "Cannot eject volume", with further information stating "Cannot eject volume 'IPOD'", or replace IPOD with the name of my CD-ROM, etc.

I was wondering has anyone experienced this before, and how I can fix it?

I installed Arch from scratch the other day, so I pretty much have the latest everything, and GNOME 2.16.2.

Thanks all!

An update:

Whether via the Right-Click->Eject or via "umount /media/IPOD" in terminal, I can't unmount my iPod successfully. The outputs of lsusb and dmesg are unchanged when compared "before umount" and "after umount". Unplugging the device removes it from the output of lsusb and dmesg has the appropriate "USB disconnec" messages.

So I'm not really sure what's going on.

Last edited by Oblong_Cheese (2007-01-29 04:05:05)

Oblong_Cheese · 2007-01-31 23:22:25

Even adding myself to the dbus and hal groups hasn't solved this problem.

Any ideas, guys?

nsa141901 · 2007-02-01 05:19:40

Do you have pmount installed?

pacman -S pmount

Oblong_Cheese · 2007-02-01 13:04:26

Didn't have it installed. Installed it, rebooted, no change.

baze · 2007-02-01 15:13:01

nsa141901 wrote:

Do you have pmount installed?
pacman -S pmount

you shouldn't need pmount with gnome, as gnome has gnome-mount which does pretty much the same as pmount.

Phrodo_00 · 2007-02-01 16:46:44

It does that for me too, but trying to eject later works, looks like it issues eject too soon, before it has finnished umounting the volume, I think this because when I eject a cd using the button in the cd tray that message appears, but is umounts the cd, so I can eject manually again... my us$0.02. I hope someone figures out how to solve it, I don't know enough hal to do it.

Last edited by Phrodo_00 (2007-02-01 16:49:45)

kwidzin · 2007-02-04 11:20:42

pacman -S eject

will do the job

tatzi · 2007-02-16 09:20:35

yes it do. ( I had the same problem with fresh 0.8 )

But why is eject not in the dependencies list of gnome-mount ?

please arch crew , fix that please. I think this must be in dependencies

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"Cannot eject volume"

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Re: "Cannot eject volume"

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