GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 511139
Applet Displays Empty Dialog Boxes on Unmount Failure
Last modified: 2011-03-01 22:13:51 UTC
Please describe the problem: If a drive cannot be unmounted from the drive mounter applet, two dialog boxes are displayed. The first dialog box (presented by gnome-mount) states that "An application is preventing..." and correctly presents the unmounting error. Immediately afterward, a second dialog (part of the drivemount applet) appears with no text in it. This second dialog is unnecessary and confusing. Steps to reproduce: 1. Mount a drive with the Gnome mount applet. 2. Open a terminal and "cd" into the mountpoint for the drive. 3. Attempt to unmount the drive from the Gnome mount applet. Actual results: A second, useless, error dialog appears. Expected results: Only one dialog (probably from gnome-mount) should appear. Does this happen every time? Yes, confirmed on multiple systems. Other information: Originally reported in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/118467 A little more information: it seems that mount_result in drive-button.c of gnome-applets produces its own error dialog in addition to that produced by gnome-umount in gnome-mount. Is this dialog necessary at all? It seems that char *error is empty anyway. This should be a relatively simple fix, I'm just not sure of the exact codepaths leading to mount_result.
Fedora bug for this issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443396
I cannot reproduce the issue with 2.26.1.
Multiple people have now said they can not reproduce this, and the original report was for obsolete releases. I suggest this report be closed now.
Closing, thanks for the notice.