Re: Unsafe storage device unmounting

[Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@ngi.it>]

Neil Williams wrote:
> Have you disabled dbus notifications? The point at which the icon
> disappears is not the point at which the drive is safe to remove. DBus
> normally raises a notification window "Data is being written to the
> device" followed by "Device is now safe to remove".

Mmh, i feel you are near to the problem even if...
No, i've not disabled dbus notification neither i've ever tweaked it.
Moreover "notification-daemon" is installed, i can see notification 
messages from other apps like Rhythmbox and the trashcan icon change 
depending on its full/empty status.

From my first mail to debian-gtk-gnome (May 2007), i have never seen 
any notification after clicking on "Unmount volume".
I use unstable since 2005: maybe there are some conffile that was not 
updated correctly, in particular when the progress bar taken from Ubuntu 
was removed.
By the way, good to know how a good working Gnome environment should 
behave.  :-)

As you asked in another mail, i append the information collected by 
"reportbug gnome" (quoted to avoid Thunderbird to wrap lines):
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages gnome depends on:
> ii  arj                        3.10.22-6     archiver for .arj files
> ii  avahi-daemon               0.6.23-2      Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
> ii  bluez-gnome                0.27-1        Bluetooth utilities for GNOME
> ii  epiphany-extensions        2.22.2-1      Extensions for Epiphany web browse
> ii  evolution-exchange         2.22.3.dfsg-1 Exchange plugin for the Evolution 
> ii  evolution-plugins          2.22.3.1-1    standard plugins for Evolution
> ii  evolution-webcal           2.21.92-1     webcal: URL handler for GNOME and 
> ii  gdm-themes                 0.6           Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
> ii  gnome-app-install          0.5.5.1-1     GNOME Application Installer
> ii  gnome-desktop-environment  1:2.22.2~4    The GNOME Desktop Environment
> ii  gnome-games                1:2.22.3-2    games for the GNOME desktop
> ii  gnome-spell                1.0.7-1       GNOME/Bonobo component for spell c
> ii  gnome-themes-extras        0.9.0.deb0.4  various themes for the GNOME 2 des
> ii  gnome-vfs-obexftp          0.4-1         GNOME VFS module for OBEX FTP
> ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg       0.10.4-3      FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
> ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.8-1      GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" 
> ii  libpam-gnome-keyring       2.22.3-1      PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
> ii  p7zip                      4.58~dfsg.1-1 7zr file archiver with high compre
> ii  rhythmbox                  0.11.6-1      music player and organizer for GNO
> ii  serpentine                 0.9-5         An application for creating audio 
> ii  swfdec-mozilla             0.6.0-4       Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macr
> ii  synaptic                   0.62.1        Graphical package manager
> ii  system-config-printer      1.0.0-2       graphical interface to configure t
> ii  totem-mozilla              2.22.2-3      Totem Mozilla plugin
> ii  transmission-gtk           1.33-1        free, lightweight BitTorrent clien
>
> Versions of packages gnome recommends:
> pn  empathy | pidgin              <none>     (no description available)
> pn  gdebi                         <none>     (no description available)
> ii  gnome-games-extra-data        2.22.0-1   games for the GNOME desktop (extra
> ii  gnome-office                  1:2.22.2~4 The GNOME Office suite
> ii  gparted                       0.3.8-1+b1 GNOME partition editor
> ii  gthumb                        3:2.10.8-1 an image viewer and browser
> ii  hal-cups-utils                0.6.16-2   Utilities to detect and configure 
> ii  hardinfo                      0.4.2.3-5  Displays system information
> pn  liferea | blam                <none>     (no description available)
> ii  menu-xdg                      0.3        freedesktop.org menu compliant win
> pn  network-manager-gnome         <none>     (no description available)
> ii  tomboy                        0.10.2-1   desktop note taking program using 
> ii  tsclient                      0.150-1    front-end for viewing of remote de
> pn  update-notifier               <none>     (no description available)
>
> Versions of packages gnome suggests:
> pn  gnome-dbg                     <none>     (no description available)
> pn  openoffice.org-evolution      <none>     (no description available)
> ii  openoffice.org-gnome          1:2.4.1-8  GNOME Integration for OpenOffice.o
>
> -- no debconf information
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Many thanks for your help.
Regards.

Cesare.