In my case too the usb stick works fine while the usb hdd doesn't.
The workaround worked just fine.
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Feisty usb stick Cannot eject volume
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99538
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
Ubuntu feisty beta updated to 13 april.
When I right click on a usb disk on the desktop and select 'eject', it report
'Cannot eject volume' and the disk is re-mounted again. Dmesg output shows only
the re-mount of the disk, nothing about the
I got the same problem on a pentium 4 ht, everything works perfectly on a fresh
install, if I install the nvidia-glx driver the system on shutdown closes all
services perfectly and hangs on 'system will now halt'.
This occurs with all kernels available, at the moment is the 2.6.15-26-386 and
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