Istvan Gabor composed on 2016-03-09 23:25 (UTC+0100):
This occurs in openSUSE 13.1 with KDE3 as default desktop. I have a Samsung external USB hard drive. When I plug it in it becomes mounted:
df -h /dev/sdd1 932G 270G 662G 29% /media/SAMSUNG
ls -l /dev/sdd1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 49 Mar 9 23:12 /dev/sdd1
The desktop user is member of group disk.
When I try to unmount the device I get:
umount /dev/sdd1 umount: /media/SAMSUNG: umount failed: Operation not permitted
Why is this and how can I fix it?
It is interesting that plugged USB flash disk also becomes mounted but I can unmount it:
df -h /dev/sdd1 7.4G 6.7G 671M 92% /media/KINGSTON
umount /dev/sdd1 ~>
IIRC: I think if you peruse the opensuse-kde3 mailing list archives that you'll find Ilya's explanation of a problem someone else would have to provide the best fix for. Setting up http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3:/HAL-enabled/openSUSE_13... as a repo changes things somehow that I cannot remember. I don't think I ever enabled it when I was using 13.1. Now I'm on 42.1, still umounting USB sticks as root. I'm pretty sure sure that this was long ago solved in TDE by removing the need for HAL. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org