Help unmounting USB stick

[Alex Mandel]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Peter Garrett wrote:
>>> I'm having trouble mounting/unmounting my USB stick. This is what 
>>> happened:
> [snip]
>>
>> When you connect the stick, run
>> tail -f /var/log/messages
> 
> I checked, nothing happens. No new messages. I put the stick in and 
> nothing. I navigate to "Comuputer" and click on it and nothing (a window 
> says "Opening <USB stick name>" and just stays there, and no new 
> messages appear in /var/log/messages). I right-click > Mount and 
> nothing. I navigate to /media/usbdisk and nothing (though the mouse 
> button changes to the pointing finger, just as if it were loading a 
> directory, but it never loads). In all cases, nothing happens in 
> /var/log/messages.
> 
> :(
> 
>> It does seem odd that it isn't putting an icon on the desktop.
> 
> Is there a way to "force" a umount?
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
When you plug it in and then type lsusb does it see the device?

Alex