In order to work around this bug, you can run `sudo palimpsest` from a terminal. Unfortunately, most users would have a hard time figuring out that palimpsest is the name of the app. (I did. I had to run check the running processes.)
#3: It's great that root isn't required just to run palimpsest because the app has a lot of useful features that don't require root. (Maybe these are new features that used to be exclusive to gparted?) I think a better quickfix would be to change the error to add "run sudo palimpsest" or to have an option that restarts the program as root. (Unless you mean adding a new launcher.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597092 Title: palimpsest cannot unmount partition in fstab Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility When trying to unmount an internal partition, ie one defined in fstab, palimpsest reports something along the lines of: Error unmounting: umount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: umount: only root can unmount UUID=b40a9324-52c8-4733-a460-ac5648da5d06 from /g I would expect palimpsest to trap this error and then prompt for admin privileges and to retry, in the same way it prompts for your password if you ask it to format a drive. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.30.1-1 Uname: Linux 2.6.34-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 1bd8e90541d49b96c13cbfcc9baf103b CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308 Date: Tue Jun 22 11:35:05 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_AU.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/597092/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
