Bug 391223

Summary:	How can I safely remove USB mass storage?
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Ladislav Michnovic <lmichnovic>
Component:	KDE4 Workspace	Assignee:	Stephan Binner <stbinner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_--EoyBps8f, tomaszmk
Version:	Beta 3	Flags:	coolo: SHIP_STOPPER+
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Ladislav Michnovic 2008-05-16 09:03:31 UTC

I dont't see an option how to safely remove USB mass storage from the system. 
It's not shown in My computer = Konqueror sysinfo:/ .

Comment 1 Ladislav Michnovic 2008-05-16 09:27:10 UTC

Actually I don't see an option how to eject a media from DVD drive. It is also not shown in "My Computer".

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2008-05-16 11:02:56 UTC

even worse: the only way there seems to be is from dolphin (started from the plasma applet) - which only says "device is busy", which is clear as dolphin itself opened a shell in that directory ;(

Comment 3 Dirk Mueller 2008-05-16 14:34:27 UTC

is there a problem with just using "unmount" in the solid device dialog (panel, the computer icon left beside the clock) ?

otherwise I don't see why this is critical

the unmount options in kio sysinfo:/ have not been ported yet. its not a lot of work though (1-2 hours)

Comment 4 Ladislav Michnovic 2008-05-16 15:54:07 UTC

Do you mean the New device Notifier? Well, no. I tried left click, right click and I did not see any dialogue box, window, option, button or anything else where I can click to umount the device. 
Am I missing something?

Btw. Pressing eject button on DVD drive do not open dialogue that device is bussy (KDE3 behavior), nor opens the tray of drive. Only way I discovered is exec eject as root.

Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2008-05-21 07:56:40 UTC

*** Bug 392762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2008-05-21 19:58:56 UTC

this is really an ugly one, even though I can see it's not an easy fix. I really would like to see this fixed if any possible. Otherwise we need to get an early online update.

Comment 8 Stephan Binner 2008-05-26 19:58:16 UTC

Re comment #2, cannot reproduce this: I can safely unmount from the sidebar in Dolphin/any file dialog even if showing the mounted dir currently.

Re comment #4, the part with the device notifier has not been backported by us (yet). It was implemented post KDE 4.0 release, see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158936

Comment 10 Stephan Binner 2008-05-26 23:00:08 UTC

Submitted new kdebase4-workspace package with backported unmounting within device notifier (don't blame me for two new error strings ;-).

Comment 11 Dirk Mueller 2008-07-18 13:36:08 UTC

*** Bug 388559 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***