[Bug 1249856] Re: udisks unmount and detach return exit status zero upon failure

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: udisks (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  udisks unmount and detach return exit status zero upon failure

Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When the unmounting or detaching of an external USB flash drive (Pen
  drive) fails, using the udisks command, an exit status of SUCCESS
  (zero) is incorrectly returned.

  Steps to reproduce:

  1. Check that the external USB flash drive is mounted:

  $ mount | grep ^/dev/sdb1
  /dev/sdb1 on /media/mody/C207-484B type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)

  
  2. Ensure that the partition /dev/sdb1 is in use. To do so, simply open another terminal and move into it:

  $ cd /media/mody/C207-484B/

  
  3. In a separate terminal attempt to unmount the partition that is in use:

  $ udisks --unmount /dev/sdb1
  Unmount failed: Cannot unmount because file system on device is busy
  $ echo $?
  0

  Another test

  $ udisks --unmount /dev/sdb1 && echo "successfully unmonted" || echo "Failed to unmount"
  Unmount failed: Cannot unmount because file system on device is busy
  successfully unmonted

  
  4. Similarly run the test for udisks --detach like so:

  $ udisks --detach /dev/sdb; echo $?
  Detach failed: One or more partitions are busy on /dev/sdb
  0

  As you can see, clearly the udisks --unmount and the udisks --detach
  commands fail, but the exit status returned is 0 or Success. This is
  incorrect behavior. The echo $? should return a non-zero value.

  
  Additional information:

  1) The release of Ubuntu used:

  Description:	Ubuntu 13.04
  Release:	13.04

  
  2) The version of udisks in use:

  udisks:
    Installed: 1.0.4-7build1
    Candidate: 1.0.4-7build1
    Version table:
   *** 1.0.4-7build1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) What you expected to happen:

  When udisks --unmount and udisks --detach fail, the exit status should
  return non-zero, indicating Failure.

  
  4) What happened instead

  When udisks --unmount and udisks --detach fail, the exit status
  currently returs zero, indicating Success.

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