Error unmounting the floppy - "/usr/bin/pumount" (Permission denied)

[Jeramy Rutley]

It could be... is hal still running at this point?


On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:30:40 +0100, agenteo <mailinglist at agenteo.it> wrote:
> Jeramy Rutley wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >Here's a shot in the dark for you:  what are the permissions set to?
> >Do an "ls -l /media/" and "ls -l /dev/fd*" to find out.  They should
> >be ok, though.
> >
> >On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:29:20 +0100, agenteo <mailinglist at agenteo.it> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>I've mounted the floppy from Computer -> Disks double clock on the
> >>Floppy icon. I've got an error while unmounting the floppy from the
> >>GNOME desktop.
> >>In english it's something like:
> >>Error while unmounting
> >>Command failure
> >>Impossible to execute the child process "/usr/bin/pumount" (Permission
> >>denied)
> >>I really don't know what could it be. If I try a sudo umount
> >>/media/floppy0 everthing is fine... but I can't do this all the times.
> >>This are the groups where the user is:
> >>agenteo adm dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev lpadmin scanner
> >>I didn't
> >>this is the /etc/fstab floppy's line:
> >>/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  vfat    rw,user,noauto          0       0
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance,
> >>Enrico
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> This is the result ls -l /dev/fd0:
> brw-rw----    1 root     floppy     2,   0 2004-11-26 07:15 /dev/fd0
> And this of ls -l /media/ :
> totale 8
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            6 2004-10-19 18:56 cdrom -> cdrom0
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2004-10-19 18:56 cdrom0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            7 2004-10-19 18:56 floppy ->
> floppy0
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2004-10-19 18:56 floppy0
> I've tried that while the floppy was mounted:
> drwxr--r--    2 agenteo  agenteo      7168 2004-11-26 07:25 floppy0
> the output of:
> cat /etc/group | grep floppy
> is:
> floppy:x:25:agenteo,hal,test
> 
> A clue, if I plugin a USB pendrive I didn't see a sda icon on the
> desktop like ususal. Maybe thoose two thinks are linked?
> 


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