Two strange problems with XFCE..not in Gnome...

Hello.

I use Xubuntu this time and like it more, than Ubuntu with the Gnome-Desktop, because it's very smooth on my notebooks.

But I recognized two strange problems in XFCE, which both not occured in Gnome with Nautilus...

one there is Windows Vista installed (NTFS). But in Thunar I can't see them. In Nautilus I can. Of course, I can mount them manually, but this is not necessary when using Gnome.

Backup and digital Pictures. The USB Sticks make no problem when I try to mount or to dismount them in thunar. But both the SD Cards and also the external HDs (FAT32 or NTFS) can be mounted - but not dismounted in thunar! I always get an error, that there is a "wrong ioctl" and the drive can not be ejected. In Gnome there is no problem with this at all!

• On one of the notebooks I have two internal HDs. On the second
• I use different USB Sticks and SD - Cards and external HDs for

Can someone give me a hint? I really searched for nearly a week about these problems and didn't get a clue.

Thanks.

night-wing

Nautilus uses it's own software to mount and unmount drives. So the fact that it does work in Gnome and does not work in XFCE is not related.

The problem you have can be discribed more simple imho:

Drives not mounting automatically in Thunar and dismounting gives IOCTL error.

I found this on automounting:

In order for that to work, you need to make sure that Thunar volume management is turned on. In thunar, edit preferences, click on Advanced, and make sure that enable volume management is checked. That's the mechanism by which XFCE automatically mounts usb flash drives.

In this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=899287

Can you start Thunar from a terminal (cli) and post the exact error it gives when unmounting a device?

Also when you are using thunar volume management, dont forget to add "#" in front of your cd and dvd devices in fstab. Otherwise it conflicts and you will face with a not automounting cds or/and dvds.

Thanks.

I'll try this today after work and will post the results and the error log.

Ok. First. The fstab is

/etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/sda1

UUID=024ec113-7c8d-4fdd-94bd-5d81d59e1a07 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

/dev/sda3

UUID=1163ca09-3d37-4f4f-a39b-d7c7ab50bc56 /home ext3 relatime 0 2

/dev/sda2

UUID=77ca4394-e6b6-4e2a-bddc-339ae5cb5878 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

What I tried...

didn't work for me. The external usb and the sd card were mounted automatically but I still can't dismount them in thunar.

didn't work. It shows only the drives in the fstab. All usb drives are in the mtab. There are not shown in this tool...

I wanted to install and try it. But it wants to install half of gnome as depencies. This is not what I want.

1. Activation of automatic device management in thunar
2. The xfce-mount-plugin
3. gnome-volume-manager

The correct error message is

"/usr/bin/eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device"

Interesting might be:

http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=17717

Thanks. I'll try this after work.

I'm sorry to say, that this doesn't work for me (pmount/pumount) :-(

ok, for your internal ntfs-partition adding it to fstab should do the trick (but i guess you already figured that out).

for unmounting/ejecting your external drive (btw are you using 8.04 or 8.10?) you could use sdparm.

e.g.

sdparm --command=stop /dev/sdb1

(where sdb1 is the device-name of your external drive, you can easily find out the device name of a mounted device with the "mount" command.) this command spins down your harddrive, so that it is safe to remove.

regarding pumount: would you mind posting your terminal output?