GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 475869
g-v-m should unmount ejected media present in fstab
Last modified: 2012-02-28 12:30:14 UTC
This is a follow-up of Mandriva bug http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30157 : when a cdrom, whose entry is present in fstab, is ejected using hardware button on cdrom drive, hal doesn't perform unmount on media removal because hal wasn't used to mount the cdrom in the first place (gnome-mount is calling mount directly in this case). This is causing dangling mount point on the system, which can cause a lot of problems if another cdrom is inserted in the drive. Attached patches for g-v-m fixes this issue by : -in gnome-volume-manager, monitoring drive mounted by g-v-m and before g-v-m was started and calling unmount if a device is removed without being unmounted first -allowing gnome-mount to unmount a device, even if media is no longer detected
Created attachment 95350 [details] [review] g-v-m patch
Created attachment 95351 [details] [review] gnome-mount patch
pinging David Zeuthen since he is taking care of gnome-mount
committed g-v-m patch
I'm uploading an additional patch for g-v-m which prevent unmounting media which were ejected during session. David, any hope to have gnome-mount patch applied ?
Created attachment 97129 [details] [review] prevent unmounting ejected media at shutdown
committed
I'm reopening the bug and assigning to gnome-mount / David Zeuthen in hope he will commit the gnome-mount patch one day ;)
Any news on this? Thanks :-)
"gnome-mount" will not see active development anymore according to its developers (as HAL is also dead). Closing this report as WONTFIX - Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.