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Installed Dropbox, now USB stick won't unmount

  • 06-04-2012 07:17AM
    #1
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,205 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with XFCE and Krusader as my preferred file manager.

    I installed Dropbox yesterday and when I first opened the public folder from the Dropbox system tray interface it opened Nautilus which I have, I think, never used before.

    The next time I inserted a USB stick it popped open Nautilus again. After closing Nautilus I tried to unmount the USB stick by right-clicking on its icon on the desktop, as I usually do. I then got an error saying the disk was probably mounted from the command line and thus couldn't be unmounted.

    I then unticked an option in Nautilus to ensure that mounted media was not automatically opened for browsing when inserted. This worked, and Nautilus no longer opens. However, every time I insert a USB stick I still get the above error message when trying to unmount it. I have to sudo umount from the command line.

    I've even tried rebooting, to no avail.


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  • #2
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,205 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    OSI wrote: »
    I'm going out on a limb here, but I do think Dropbox and Nautilus are the issue. As far as I'm aware, Dropbox in Linux relies on Nautilus integration. I'm assuming that dropbox is starting nautilus, and that nautilus is catching the mount command instead of krusader and as it's not your file mananger, XFCE is not working correctly with nautilus handling the mount.

    Could you try disabling dropox starting on start up and see if that makes a difference?

    I will definitely try that to at least confirm the problem. It could be as simple as telling Nautilus not to mount anything or maybe I'll have to force kill kit but then Dropbox might die.


  • #3
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,205 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    That's definitely it. Nautilus respawns if I kill it, even if the dropbox daemon is no longer running. Not sure how to tell Nautilus to keep its hands off my USB ports.

    Edit: found this command which so far seems to be working.
    gconftool-2 -s --type bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount faes


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