Re: Trouble with eject and USB devices

[Christopher Desjardins <cddesjardins@gmail.com>]

I've noticed that my IPod also experiences this and after I've 
eventually ejected it the device stills gives the impression that it is 
communicating with my computer (i.e. it says do not remove device on the 
screen of the IPod).  I know that at least Ubuntu and Fedora have 
figured out how to properly communicate with an IPod so that it can be 
safely removed (i.e. that warning goes away and my battery icon comes 
on).   Maybe looking into how Ubuntu and Fedora fixed this might shed 
some light on how to what's wrong. 
Cheers,
Chris Desjardins
MSc Candidate
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E9


Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need som help tracking down this issue, figuring out if it's a bug, a
> misconfiguration on my part or something else.
>
> I have an Ipod (USB device) and when I use eject from nautilus or the
> terminal, I get this error message: "eject: unable to open `/dev/sdb2'".
>
> The Ipods are configured in HAL to be ejected, not only unmounted, for
> the display to say "It's now safe to remove".
>
> If I run eject as root, everything works fine.
>
> I found an earlier thread about a similar issue, blaming udev, but
> before I report a bug I'd like to get this confirmed.
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2005/02/msg00058.html
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>