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gnome-mount package

Ejecting an ipod should tell the ipod to disconnect, like rhythmbox

Bug #164682 reported by Rory McCann
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gnome-mount (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

What happens when you eject an ipod using gnome disk mounter applet and rhythmbox is different.

When you plug and ipod into a computer, it automatically mounts. The ipod screen will have a 'do not disconnect' warning message. If you have the disk mounter applet and use that to disconnect the ipod, it is unmounted, but the warning on the ipod screen is still there.

Alternativly, you can open rhythmbox, select the ipod then click eject. The ipod is unmounted on the computer and the do not disconnect message goes away from the ipod screen.

Clearly rhythmbox has some knowledge of ipods and tells the ipod something to make it know it's no longer mounted. Gnome mount should do this too. Some people might suggest that gnome-mount is not a full featured ipod management system, however it goes to the trouble of displaying a special icon for the ipod and says 'Eject Apple iPod', so it should at least eject it properly.

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Bernhard Schuster (drahnr) wrote :

I can confirm this (owning an iPod nano 2G 8GB)

Changed in gnome-mount:
status: New → Confirmed
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Chris Jones (cmsj) wrote :

I don't use the drive mount applet, but if I right click on my ipod in nautilus' Computer view and choose Eject, it does the right thing.
Are you still seeing this issue in Ubuntu 8.04?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

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 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

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Changed in gnome-mount:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Chris Jones (cmsj) wrote :

AFAIK the essential thing when unmount an ipod is that it waits to be ejected as well. Nautilus/rhythmbox/banshee/etc. know to do this, presumably because of its hal properties.
I assume the drive mount applet does not pay attention to this kind of thing. If one manually umounts the ipod, it continues to claim that it is connected, but eject(1) on the partition causes it to change its display and tell the user it's ok to disconnect.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

did you try recently since the applet has been ported to gio?

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Chris Jones (cmsj) wrote :

The Disk Mounter does indeed only offer an Eject option, so it seems that this is fixed. I seem to remember the old applet used to allow the user to specify specific devices, mountpoints and icons, but the new one seems to be entirely related to HAL, so I suspect this bug couldn't really occur anymore.

Changed in gnome-mount:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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