Bug 391223 - How can I safely remove USB mass storage?
Summary: How can I safely remove USB mass storage?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
: 388559 392762 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: KDE4 Workspace (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Critical with 5 votes (vote)
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Assignee: Stephan Binner
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Reported: 2008-05-16 09:03 UTC by Ladislav Michnovic
Modified: 2008-07-18 13:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Ladislav Michnovic 2008-05-16 09:03:31 UTC 
I dont't see an option how to safely remove USB mass storage from the system. 
It's not shown in My computer = Konqueror sysinfo:/ .
Comment 1 Ladislav Michnovic 2008-05-16 09:27:10 UTC 
Actually I don't see an option how to eject a media from DVD drive. It is also not shown in "My Computer".
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2008-05-16 11:02:56 UTC 
even worse: the only way there seems to be is from dolphin (started from the plasma applet) - which only says "device is busy", which is clear as dolphin itself opened a shell in that directory ;(
Comment 3 Dirk Mueller 2008-05-16 14:34:27 UTC 
is there a problem with just using "unmount" in the solid device dialog (panel, the computer icon left beside the clock) ?

otherwise I don't see why this is critical

the unmount options in kio sysinfo:/ have not been ported yet. its not a lot of work though (1-2 hours)
Comment 4 Ladislav Michnovic 2008-05-16 15:54:07 UTC 
Do you mean the New device Notifier? Well, no. I tried left click, right click and I did not see any dialogue box, window, option, button or anything else where I can click to umount the device. 
Am I missing something?

Btw. Pressing eject button on DVD drive do not open dialogue that device is bussy (KDE3 behavior), nor opens the tray of drive. Only way I discovered is exec eject as root.
Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2008-05-21 07:56:40 UTC 
*** Bug 392762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2008-05-21 19:58:56 UTC 
this is really an ugly one, even though I can see it's not an easy fix. I really would like to see this fixed if any possible. Otherwise we need to get an early online update.
Comment 8 Stephan Binner 2008-05-26 19:58:16 UTC 
Re comment #2, cannot reproduce this: I can safely unmount from the sidebar in Dolphin/any file dialog even if showing the mounted dir currently.

Re comment #4, the part with the device notifier has not been backported by us (yet). It was implemented post KDE 4.0 release, see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158936
Comment 10 Stephan Binner 2008-05-26 23:00:08 UTC 
Submitted new kdebase4-workspace package with backported unmounting within device notifier (don't blame me for two new error strings ;-).
Comment 11 Dirk Mueller 2008-07-18 13:36:08 UTC 
*** Bug 388559 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***