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Re: Media notification broken (dbus, hal & kded)



Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Answering to your forum message:
>> When I "safely remove" my usb harddisk an error message "The device was 
>> successfully unmounted but could not be ejected" appears. The error message 
>> is absurd and in fact, this should be the normal behaviour. An even better 
>> way would be a possibility to choose between "eject" and "unmount". Is there 
>> a way to control the behaviour of the mediamanager?
> Upgrade to udev 0.103-2 and you will never see "The device was >successfully 
> unmounted but could not be ejected" again when ejecting usb/mmc/firewire 
> devices (if your user is in system group floppy).

Why was group floppy chosen for that? Imho group plugdev would be more
apt for that case. (usb/mmc/firewire are no floppy devices. I'd consider
them hot"plug"able devices).

Cheers,
Michael

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