Re: strange nautilus eject problem

[Charles Henderson <dg@bellcore.net>]

  I see that others have had the same issue:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133076


On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 15:30 -0400, Luis M wrote:
> (sorry about the top-post-reply style. some people dislike this, but in...)
> 
> I never use that menu to eject things. I only right click on the
> desktop icon and choose Eject.
> 
> This didn't work on the computer I mentioned earlier (old Gateway). It
> does work fine for all other systems.
> 
> And yes you are right, if I open a terminal and type "eject" it
> umount's and ejects the disk fine. I have "close" alias'ed to "eject
> -t" which closes the tray just fine (from the commnad line.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:16:44 -0500, Charles Henderson <dg@bellcore.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 22:07 -0400, Luis M wrote:
> > > I actually hit this same issue (read: bug) today in a Sarge
> > > installation (+ gnome 2.8 from experimental) I did on an old system
> > > (gateway system. 350Mhz.)
> > >
> > > Everything works fine, but the Nautilus eject doesn't work.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:45:45 -0500, Charles Henderson <dg@bellcore.net> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:44 -0400, Luis M wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:03:48 -0500, Charles Henderson <dg@bellcore.net> wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 15:25 -0400, Luis M wrote:
> <snip>
> >   I have a bit more information.  The bug, I am rather certain that is
> > what it is at this point, only occurs when attempting to eject the cdrom
> > from the context menu of the nautilus "Computer" cdrom icon and does not
> > occur when attempting to eject the cdrom from the context menu of the
> > Desktop cdrom icon.  It is reproducible on two test systems I have set
> > up as well.
> 
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