Re: [gentoo-user] Hal and ejected DVD not unmounting

[Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>]

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Dale schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I have ran into this from time to time and it is really irritating to
> say it lightly.  When I use my DVD drive and eject the DVD, hal seems to
> not unmount the device.  That then causes me to get messages like this
> in /var/log/messages:
> 
[...]
>
> Since this happens every few seconds, my messages file can get pretty
> large in a hurry.  I have logrotate and plenty of disk space but this is
> still annoying as heck.  I can stop it by manually unmounting the drive
> but I sometimes forget to do that.
> 
> Can someone tell me how to beat some sense into this thing and make it
> unmount when I am done and the drive is empty?  This has happened over
> many different versions of hal so specific versions doesn't seem to
> matter.  Just in case:
> 
[...]

How did you eject the DVD? Did you press the button on the drive, did
you use `eject` or maybe your desktop environment offers you that option
(thunar, nautilus, kde, ...)?


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