On 05/08/2018 09:38 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/07/2018 03:53 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: >> On 08/05/18 07:48, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> . >>> >>> I've had this problem for more than a year but usually it only bothers >>> mefor a moment and I move on. Today it was a bigger annoyance when I >>> was trying to diagnose a problem with a flash drive. >>> >>> When I mount the device my clicking on mount on the desktop icon that >>> pops up when it is plugged init then takes 2 minutes, I timed it >>> today, to release after clicking on unmount. I would like to reduce >>> that to something reasonable likeimmediately or no more than a few >>> seconds. >>> >>> This is with xfce and lightdm on Fedora 27, but it has been doing this >>> for several versions of Fedora. I use the flash drive to save audio >>> books, keep reusing the same device and only see the problem when I >>> save a new audio book, perhaps once a week, so I just accept it ... >>> >>> Any thoughts appreciated, >> >> In case it helps: I have the same issue where umounting (or ejecting) a >> USB drive from the >> "filesystem" GUI takes a very long time. Actually, it seems to kill the >> WM which then >> restarts after a while. >> >> This is the case even when very little was written to the drive. >> >> I am of f26, using XFCE. > > I have seen the same behavior under F27 and F28 using Xfce and USB > drives (the desktop freezes until the drive gets ejected--a manual > umount as root from the CLI completes immediately). > > I don't believe it to be a filesystem or hardware issue--it seems to be > something with the desktop and file manager. I had intended to test it > with KDE on the same platform but haven't had a chance to get to it. Just tested with KDE on the same system (logged out of Xfce and fired up Plasma/KDE) and this issue seems to be isolated to Xfce/Thunar. Ejecting a USB drive under KDE was instaneous. Under Xfce, desktop froze (well, I can switch desktops) after selecting "Unmount" from the desktop. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - The trouble with troubleshooting is that trouble sometimes - > - shoots back. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the - - reader...who doesn't get it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
