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Bug 147423 - better unmount messages (allow closing programs when unmount failed)
better unmount messages (allow closing programs when unmount failed)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.28.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 148718 149454 162899 314791 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 528559
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-07-12 15:04 UTC by Richard
Modified: 2009-10-25 09:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Richard 2004-07-12 15:04:14 UTC 
It would be nice it the error message for
unmounting a busy device was more helpful.  

Right now it just tells you that the device is
busy giving you no indication of what can be done
to fix this.  You have to open up a terminal and
manually run the lsof command in order to figure
out what is using it.


Instead of the generic device is busy message it
could display something like this:
"
Could not umount cd it is presently in use by the
following programs:
blah1
blah2
....
What would you like to do:
[close programs and unmount] [cancel unmount]
"
Comment 1 Vincent Noel 2004-08-02 19:29:09 UTC 
*** Bug 148718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Vincent Noel 2004-08-06 13:34:55 UTC 
*** Bug 149454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jaap A. Haitsma 2004-09-19 08:44:07 UTC 
I totally agree with this bug

What I currently also don't like currently is that it says "Unable to unmount
the selected volume" and "show more details". I always find myself clicking on
Show more details, because I  wanted to unmount the drive. I would say you
immediately show the reason why it didn't unmount and maybe also a show more
details item where you can see the specific umount messages. This might be a
small step in the direction of implementing this whole RFE
Comment 4 Lionel Dricot 2005-08-14 09:07:42 UTC 
change the title for search purpose.
Comment 5 Lionel Dricot 2005-08-14 09:08:18 UTC 
The ubuntu related bug : http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13420
Comment 6 Olav Vitters 2005-08-29 20:35:57 UTC 
*** Bug 314791 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Peter Parkkali 2005-10-25 13:58:22 UTC 
It would be nice to see the "common" names of the applications that have the
device open, instead of / along with the process names.

Many applications in Gnome use a different name for the binary than what the
user sees (eg. "Archive Manager" vs. file-roller, "Text Editor" vs. gedit, "Open
Office Writer" vs. "ooffice -options", et cetera). I don't think many end users
are/should be able to make this association.

It would be even better if Gnome would tell the user, in an intuitive way
(whatever that is!), which _windows_ on his/her desktop are keeping the device
busy, and offer to close these, as there may be many instances of the same app
running.
Comment 8 Fabio Bonelli 2006-07-04 08:16:31 UTC 
*** Bug 162899 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-05-22 09:49:27 UTC 
It seems this is being implemented in gnome-mount.
Comment 10 Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 2009-08-10 18:57:50 UTC 
Ubuntu downstream bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/19586
Comment 11 Praveen Thirukonda 2009-10-24 12:05:00 UTC 
This is now available in Ubuntu Karmic.
can some dev use that patch and close this?
This is a useful feature to have on all distros.
Comment 12 Cosimo Cecchi 2009-10-24 23:32:29 UTC 
This has been implemented in GTK+ 2.18.