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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hal and ejected DVD not unmounting
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:58:17
Message-Id: 4A478505.7030709@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Hal and ejected DVD not unmounting by Dale
1 Dale schrieb:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I have ran into this from time to time and it is really irritating to
5 > say it lightly. When I use my DVD drive and eject the DVD, hal seems to
6 > not unmount the device. That then causes me to get messages like this
7 > in /var/log/messages:
8 >
9 [...]
10 >
11 > Since this happens every few seconds, my messages file can get pretty
12 > large in a hurry. I have logrotate and plenty of disk space but this is
13 > still annoying as heck. I can stop it by manually unmounting the drive
14 > but I sometimes forget to do that.
15 >
16 > Can someone tell me how to beat some sense into this thing and make it
17 > unmount when I am done and the drive is empty? This has happened over
18 > many different versions of hal so specific versions doesn't seem to
19 > matter. Just in case:
20 >
21 [...]
22
23 How did you eject the DVD? Did you press the button on the drive, did
24 you use `eject` or maybe your desktop environment offers you that option
25 (thunar, nautilus, kde, ...)?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Hal and ejected DVD not unmounting Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>