Bug#696848: general: USB flash drive unmount problems (both squeeze/wheezy)

[Holger Levsen]

reassign 696848 nautilus
thanks

"Fedora had the same bug and it has been fixed with the recent commits.
see if this lengthy report helps. 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885133 "

On Freitag, 28. Dezember 2012, Eugene wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: normal
> 
> Working both in squeeze/xfce/thunar and wheezy/lxde/pcmanfm (both
> up-to-date). Three computers: Old 1.3GHz/i386, New 2x2.2GHz/amd64 and
> eeepc 0.9GHz. Tested on Transcend jetflash 4Gb and Kingston DataTraveler
> 4Gb.
> When I eject the USB flash drive (by right-clicking and selecting menu
> option) the system says the "device is safe to be removed", thou if I
> remove the USB flash drive it results in error in the last file written
> (not always, but often - almost 100% if the file was written few seconds
> before). I've noticed the flash drive led flashing a few times after about
> 5 seconds after unmounting. When I wait for 10 seconds after "safe to be
> removed" message there are regularily no errors. This problem also
> appeared with external HDD 750Gb and internal 500Gb HDD through USB to
> SATA bridge, thou far less often (1 event for each per about 50-100 write
> operations compared to ~50% for USB flash drive).
> 
> It seems that the cache doesn't appear to be properly finished to be
> written on the flash drive.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.6
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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