[xubuntu-users] Unable to unmount thumb drives

[John Alfred Nathanael Chee]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 23:13, raevol <raevol at gmail.com> wrote:
> John, here's what I'm getting:
> raevol at jabberwock:~$ mount
>  -- lots of devices --
> /dev/sdc1 on /media/THOMB type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=winnt,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000)
>  -- here I copied a bunch of files --
> raevol at jabberwock:~$ umount /media/THOMB
> /sbin/umount.hal: Unmounting /media/THOMB failed:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes
> include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus
> security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network
> connection was broken.
>  -- here I waited a long time just to be sure --
> raevol at jabberwock:~$ umount /media/THOMB
> /sbin/umount.hal: Unmounting /media/THOMB failed:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes
> include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus
> security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network
> connection was broken.
> Any ideas?
> -Mickey

Mickey,

This output should help us diagnose the problem, unfortunately I
haven't a clue about the solution, I'm CCing the mailing list to see
if anyone else has any clues.

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