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INDEX
-- INTRODUCTION --
-- HERE THE BUG FOR WHO DOESN'T WANT TO READ EVERYTHING (PART 1) --
-- SECONDARY BUG --
-- HERE THE BUG FOR WHO DOESN'T WANT TO READ EVERYTHING (PART 2) --
-- RAW GUESSING --
-- STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS (even more personal) --
If you only want to know the bug problem, just read PART1 and PART2.
As you can see this is not a normal bug, I used this space to dump my anger.
(it will work when I press the submit button...)
I tried to separate my personal feelings from the bug as much as
possible.
My system is ubuntu 10.04 upgraded from 8.04 LTS and is now up-to-date
with synaptics.
Good reading!
-- INTRODUCTION --
The recent introduction of the "safely remove hardware" for USB sticks /
memory cards / cd roms caused me some bad head-scratching.
As I can see, you have now 2 choices with "media/removable devices":
"safely remove" or "eject".
That is IMHO nonsense: eject "usb pen drive"?? safely remove "cd rom"??
or "cd hard drive"??
BEFORE there was umount (right click). Or you could click the eject icon in
nautilus: it still was the SAME **** command: umount.
NOW right click on media (nautilus) tell you so **** many options.
And there is still the "eject icon" that you don't know how does actually
behave since there are 2 "textual" commands now.
They introduced a "feature" that they knew didn't work and confuse you.
Why the heck?
-- HERE THE BUG FOR WHO DOESN'T WANT TO READ EVERYTHING (PART 1) --
There is one good thing: "safely remove hardware" shuts down my usb drive led.
So i guess it's power-management with aggressive power saving settings.
DOWNSIDE: it doesn't know *HOW TO POWER IT UP AGAIN*.
That's crazy! Totally nonsense: what feature is this? it's a bad bug!
(IMHO)
The real problem comes when I use my internal USB CARD READER.
I insert a COMPACT FLASH card. Ok works, well. A yellow led is lit.
Now I want to remove the COMPACT FLASH card.
* If i do so it cant be mounted anymore. *
-- SECONDARY BUG --
AND the device DISAPPEARS from /dev listing!!!
You tell me: why do you care? keep on readin'.
I use to umount from desktop my devices, so to mount them again from console.
NOW I CAN'T. Because if i INSERT the device, DBUS auto mount it. If i umount it
DISAPPEAR from dev listing.
* Why make life so hard? It used to be easy. *
I have to shut down X system+dbus now so that when I insert the device nothing
tampers with udev.
I can now call fdisk or mkfs or mount! (FINALLY)
That's the ONLY way i have to mount a dev from terminal, a task that i
need quite often.
-- HERE THE BUG FOR WHO DOESN'T WANT TO READ EVERYTHING (PART 2) --
Anyways there's a problem. with my COMPACT flash.
If I eject it then the flash HARDWARE DEVICE is shut down, powered down and
doesn't work anymore.
If i reboot, STILL DOESNT WORK.
(eject, remove COMPAT FLASH card, shut down, power up, insert COMPACT FLASH
card. NO WORK!!)
It only works if I power down the PSU ~10 seconds.
* Ubuntu eject / power save mode is so powerful that my hardware card reader
can't wakeup even after reboot!! *
The old ubuntu 8.04 LTS always worked.
Update from base 10.4 to latest-10.4.1.whatever doesn't help.
-- RAW GUESSING --
ACPI *MIGHT* be implemented wrong (i have latest bios), but we've always
had to handle buggy hardware implementations in x86.
It should be gnome devs / ubuntu DEVS problems ANYWAYS, since I dont
have rare hardware.
More guessings: gnome-2.30? udev? dbus? hald? devicekit-disks? udisks?
-- STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS (even more personal) --
Damn "safely remove hardware"!!
I'm angry because google "gnome 2.30 safely remove hardware safely" heck shows
changelogs but NOT 1 WORD OF THIS HUGE CHANGE that made me so angry.
So anger increases.
Not even forums talking of this pops up in the search engine. Why?!
This is a huge problem I cant be the only one to have it!
--
"safely remove hardware" I hate this! looks like windows XP
We've never needed it, why did they add in gnome 2.30?!
--
... I really feel bad for those regressions that always occour ...
--
What gnome module did all this mess so that i can put the blame on them
...
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: 2.30 drive eject gnome pen remove udisks usb
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"safely remove hardware" totally screws up my hardware card reader
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625380
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