** Changed in: mediascanner2 (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
** Changed in: mediascanner2 (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => zawlatt (ayngzawlatt)
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There doesn't appear to be a way to be notified of unmount attempts at
the moment. There is an fschange modification about ten years ago
(http://stefan.buettcher.org/cs/fschange/), but that never made it into
the kernel.
It looks like it's impossible for mediascanner to automatically back off
** Changed in: mediascanner2 (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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Title:
mediascanner prevents unmounting usb device
To manage
It's difficult to see how to fix this. External devices are scanned
because people quite often use USB sticks or external drives with their
music collections.
I'm not sure whether it is even possible for mediascanner to find out
that some other arbitrary process has asked for a filesystem to be
** Changed in: mediascanner2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: mediascanner2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium => High
** Changed in: mediascanner2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: High => Critical
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** Tags added: xenial yakkety
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Title:
mediascanner prevents unmounting usb device
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Still applies to Ubuntu 16.10 with mediascanner2 version
0.112+16.10.20160909-0ubuntu1.
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Title:
mediascanner prevents unmounting usb device
To
I wonder what is the benefit of scanning external drives that are
mounted only temporarily, especially when connecting other people's USB
sticks.
Since mediascanner is a process that was not launched manually by the
user, the confirmation on removal (device busy) is redundant, instead
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: mediascanner2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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