Cannot unmount mp3 player using thunar

yasar11732 · 2011-07-07 21:11:20

Hi,

When I try to unmount my mp3 player using thunar, it doesn't unmount it (No problems with normal usb memories). When I fuser on it, after I tried unmount it, there seems to be like 10 processes using it. When I force quit them with

fuser -m /dev/sdc --kill

I return to terminal (jumping from X) and see a page full of errors. I can return to X with ctrl+alt+f7. My mp3 player is this: "Philips GoGear SA2RGA02SN RaGa 2GB"

I am using xfce4, with all group + xfce4-utils installed. I don't use login manager, my xinitrc and .bash_profile is as follows:

.bash_profile wrote:

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
startx

.xinitrc wrote:

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch xfce4-session

So, I was wondering what is the problem, and is there a way to make is work normally.

Last edited by yasar11732 (2011-07-07 21:11:53)

ConnorBehan · 2011-07-08 03:08:41

Can you find out what those 10 processes are? And can you unmount it with "sudo umount /dev/sdc1"?

yasar11732 · 2011-07-08 04:55:08

I realized that fuser -m /dev/sdc gives all processes owned by me at that moment. For example, it give me a list of processes that corresponds to this:

yasar 1602 0.0 0.1 5392 1584 tty1 S+ Jul07 0:00 -bash
yasar 1607 0.0 0.1 5340 1416 tty1 S+ Jul07 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
yasar 1624 0.0 0.0 3180 664 tty1 S+ Jul07 0:00 xinit /home/yasar/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.Z5Sbdk4zkQ
yasar 1631 0.0 0.0 2308 576 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 ck-launch-session dbus-launch xfce4-session
yasar 1638 0.0 0.0 3348 488 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
yasar 1639 0.0 0.0 2568 324 ? Ss Jul07 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
yasar 1648 0.0 0.6 29736 7736 tty1 Sl Jul07 0:00 xfce4-session
yasar 1652 0.0 0.1 3948 1804 ? Ss Jul07 0:02 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
yasar 1654 0.0 0.1 5688 2292 ? S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
yasar 1658 0.0 0.2 18872 3296 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 xfsettingsd
yasar 1659 0.0 0.7 22760 10088 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 xfwm4 --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 213d50e43-4189-4bd5-9bdd-88ba018ba437
yasar 1661 0.0 1.1 96096 14508 tty1 Sl Jul07 0:01 xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2a62dfc23-f36b-4649-ad64-20a924b5116d
yasar 1662 0.0 1.1 97084 14700 tty1 S Jul07 0:02 xfdesktop --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 26125b852-39ab-4370-a5b0-c7d1202d3eda
yasar 1663 0.0 2.8 164908 35964 tty1 S Jul07 0:03 pidgin --session 2c569a522-b558-498c-bf66-1f315a40afa9 --display :0.0
yasar 1666 0.0 0.6 90492 8204 ? Ssl Jul07 0:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 2f89cd8c8-0544-4d3a-a10b-dad5242710ee
yasar 1671 0.0 0.1 8000 2208 ? S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
yasar 1672 0.0 0.2 20864 3696 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 xfce4-settings-helper --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 25a995b8d-9702-41bf-a2ae-f342bdc1ee79
yasar 1677 0.0 0.1 31104 2100 ? Ssl Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/yasar/.gvfs
yasar 1682 0.0 0.5 19748 6932 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 1 14680110 systray Sistem çekmecesi Bildirim simgelerinin göründüğü alan
yasar 1684 0.0 0.3 34284 3924 ? S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor
yasar 1686 0.0 0.7 81500 9440 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libxfsm-logout-plugin.so 15 14680111 xfsm-logout-plugin Oturum Menüsü İçinde ekranı kilitle, askıya al, kapat veya çıkış yap seçenekleri yer alan bir menü gösterir
yasar 1710 0.0 0.6 19956 8100 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libdatetime.so 4 14680118 datetime Tarih & Saat Basit bir takvimi olan, tarih ve saat programcığı.
yasar 1711 0.0 0.9 104064 12216 tty1 Sl Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-mixer-plugin 7 14680119 xfce4-mixer-plugin Ses Düzenleyicisi Ses kartınız için ses düzeyi ayarı
yasar 1722 0.0 0.7 83736 9188 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-screenshooter-plugin 19 14680120 screenshooter Ekran görüntüsü Tüm ekranın, etkin pencerenin veya belirli bir alanın ekran görüntüsünü alır
yasar 1733 0.0 0.2 8608 3168 ? S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0
yasar 1744 0.0 1.0 93936 13108 tty1 Sl Jul07 0:00 xfce4-notes
yasar 1744 0.0 1.0 93936 13108 tty1 Sl Jul07 0:00 xfce4-notes
yasar 1746 0.0 0.7 83124 9996 tty1 S Jul07 0:00 xfce4-clipman
yasar 1749 0.0 2.8 243924 37020 tty1 Sl Jul07 0:08 /opt/dropbox/dropbox
yasar 1880 0.0 0.9 84240 11844 ? Ss Jul07 0:00 /usr/bin/xfrun4 --daemon
yasar 1927 0.0 1.4 115684 17920 ? Sl Jul07 0:03 /usr/bin/Thunar --daemon
yasar 1934 0.0 0.2 8516 3020 ? S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-network --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1
yasar 1936 0.0 0.2 8312 2564 ? S Jul07 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-dnssd --spawner :1.11 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2
yasar 2024 4.5 19.5 311156 250340 tty1 Sl Jul07 20:32 /home/yasar/.local/lib/opera/opera
yasar 2040 0.0 0.9 85560 12296 ? S Jul07 0:00 leafpad /home/yasar/.bash_profile
yasar 2045 0.0 0.9 93572 11700 ? Ss Jul07 0:00 gvim /home/yasar/.xinitrc
yasar 2052 0.0 2.1 101436 27788 tty1 Sl 00:04 0:12 /home/yasar/.local/lib/opera//operapluginwrapper 59 63 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
yasar 2053 0.0 0.0 3108 556 tty1 S 00:04 0:00 /home/yasar/.local/lib/opera//operaplugincleaner 2024
yasar 2314 0.1 0.8 82336 10324 ? S 07:25 0:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
yasar 2319 0.0 0.9 55268 12388 ? Sl 07:25 0:00 /usr/lib/tumbler-1/tumblerd
yasar 2328 0.8 1.2 97348 15368 ? Ssl 07:26 0:00 terminal

And also, I can unmount it from terminal (it seems to be normally unmounted) but when I unplug it, it send me terminal (tty1), and in a couple of secons I can switch back to tty7 again.

yasar11732 · 2011-07-08 07:36:51

And also, even after I unplug it, I can still see it under /dev/disk/by-id as a broken link.

yasar11732 · 2011-07-08 20:29:06

Bump! Still unresolved.

ConnorBehan · 2011-07-09 03:33:37

Such bumping is unproductive. This is how I understand the issue. You have an mp3 player plugged in and thunar claims that a process is using it. If you do one of three things:

1. kill that process
2. "sudo umount" the drive and then unplug it
3. unplug it without a "sudo umount"

you are "sent back to tty1" even though X is still running and can be accessed again on tty7.

What model of mp3 player is it? Does this happen with other usb devices (the mp3 player is usb right)? Try to find out if the player uses media transfer protocol or mass-storage device or a VFAT filesystem or something else. If there is proprietary weirdness on your mp3 player maybe there is a tool that can get rid of it or reformat it. For example, my USB drive came with some insecure Windows only thing called U3. To get rid of it, I downloaded the U3 uninstall tool and ran it on a Windows box with my USB drive mounted.

Something that could shed light on the issue... how are you mounting the device? If you use auto-mounting try turning that off and seeing if the problem still persists if you mount the mp3 storage manually with the "mount" command.

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#1 2011-07-07 21:11:20

Cannot unmount mp3 player using thunar

#2 2011-07-08 03:08:41

Re: Cannot unmount mp3 player using thunar

#3 2011-07-08 04:55:08

Re: Cannot unmount mp3 player using thunar

#4 2011-07-08 07:36:51

Re: Cannot unmount mp3 player using thunar

#5 2011-07-08 20:29:06

Re: Cannot unmount mp3 player using thunar

#6 2011-07-09 03:33:37

Re: Cannot unmount mp3 player using thunar

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