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Bug 162899 - helpfull umount
helpfull umount
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 147423
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Other
2.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-04 09:22 UTC by william heyland
Modified: 2006-07-04 08:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description william heyland 2005-01-04 09:22:15 UTC 
Problem

When a process blocks a unmount(), a small popup saying 'device is busy' appears
on screen. No additional help is given to the user to help resolve the block.

Nautilus does a really wonderfull job of noticing a unmount and automaticaly
closes  and open windows on the filesystem being unmounted. This behaviour could
be extended to other gnome applications too. Although this functionality does
help alleviate the problem, sometimes shit happens. There are countless other
3rd party applications that can potentially block an unmount.

Possible Solution:

Make the popup that occurs in case of a unmount failure to be like a wizard. It
could list the applications blocking a unmount (maybe obtained from lsof).  It
could also provide the user with possible solutions to the block (optionally
terminating the application) and information on the application blocking the
unmount. In other words, in a user-friendly desktop environment the user should
not be forced to use the command line to resolve a block.

As much feedback as possible please. We need the best solution that everyone
agrees with.

Thanks for gnome 2.8... it just gets better and better ;-)

William Heyland

sorry for the spelling mistakes
Comment 1 Fabian Sturm 2005-01-04 10:34:18 UTC 
Yes this would be great! 
I often have that famd holds a lock on one of my usb partitions and therefore
can't be unmounted.

The only way right now to figure it out is to run lsof.
So something like this would really help!!

Thansk, Fabian
Comment 2 william heyland 2005-01-04 13:24:21 UTC 
In order to develop a portable solution. It may be a good idea to develop or
extend a portable library dedicated to handling mounts. The library could offer
a simple API for handling an unmount along with extensive feedback and
assistance in case of failures. If a portable library could be developed then
including this functionality on the command line, gnome, kde and any other
environments may be easy.

just an afterthought ;-)
Comment 3 Fabio Bonelli 2006-07-04 08:16:31 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147423 ***