Florian Philipp wrote: > Dale schrieb: > >> Hi, >> >> I have ran into this from time to time and it is really irritating to >> say it lightly. When I use my DVD drive and eject the DVD, hal seems to >> not unmount the device. That then causes me to get messages like this >> in /var/log/messages: >> >> > [...] > >> Since this happens every few seconds, my messages file can get pretty >> large in a hurry. I have logrotate and plenty of disk space but this is >> still annoying as heck. I can stop it by manually unmounting the drive >> but I sometimes forget to do that. >> >> Can someone tell me how to beat some sense into this thing and make it >> unmount when I am done and the drive is empty? This has happened over >> many different versions of hal so specific versions doesn't seem to >> matter. Just in case: >> >> > [...] > > How did you eject the DVD? Did you press the button on the drive, did > you use `eject` or maybe your desktop environment offers you that option > (thunar, nautilus, kde, ...)? > >
I just push the button on the drive. I have always done it that way. At one time the eject thing in the KDE menu wouldn't actually eject. It just sat there blinking at me. :/ Should I use the menu and not the button? Dale :-) :-)
