Error unmounting the floppy - "/usr/bin/pumount" (Permission denied)

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Sat Nov 27 18:39:28 UTC 2004


Jeramy Rutley wrote:

>Here's a shot in the dark for you:  what are the permissions set to? 
>Do an "ls -l /media/" and "ls -l /dev/fd*" to find out.  They should
>be ok, though.
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>On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:29:20 +0100, agenteo <mailinglist at agenteo.it> wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>I've mounted the floppy from Computer -> Disks double clock on the
>>Floppy icon. I've got an error while unmounting the floppy from the
>>GNOME desktop.
>>In english it's something like:
>>Error while unmounting
>>Command failure
>>Impossible to execute the child process "/usr/bin/pumount" (Permission
>>denied)
>>I really don't know what could it be. If I try a sudo umount
>>/media/floppy0 everthing is fine... but I can't do this all the times.
>>This are the groups where the user is:
>>agenteo adm dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev lpadmin scanner
>>I didn't
>>this is the /etc/fstab floppy's line:
>>/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  vfat    rw,user,noauto          0       0
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Enrico
>>
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I've tried mounting and unmounting via shell with mount /media/floppy 
copy something on the floppy umount /media/floppy and it works! So... 
why it doesn't work in GNOME?





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