Re: Problems unmounting USB sticks under Gnome

["Roberto D'Oliveira" <rcdeoliveira@gmail.com>]

2007/10/9, Todd A. Jacobs <nospam@codegnome.org>:
> I'm running Etch, and receive the following error when trying to unmount
> a volume that has been (one assumes) mounted by gnome-volume-manager:
>
>     cannot open /media/.hal-mtab
>
> True enough, something is creating /media/.hal-mtab-lock, but at no
> point during mounting or umounting is there a .hal-mtab. This used to
> "just work." What might the problem be?
>
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I don't know what is the problem, but in my case I solved it by doing:
"aptitude purge gnome-mount"

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Saludos,
Roberto D'Oliveira