Bug#355261: gnome-applets: drivemount_applet2 : should wait until unmounting finished

[Olivier Berger]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.12.3-1
Severity: important


When unmounting a volume with the drivemount applet, unmounting seems to be done asynchronously to the display of the status of the volume in the icon.
The icons show the volume as unmounted while it's still unmounting, for instance flushing modifications made to a slow device like USB memory.
If the user trust the status and ejects the unit physically, it has great chances to breaking the filesystem (or the device).

I think the applet should only display unmounted units when umount has finished.

Severity important since can lead to data corruption pretty easily !

Best regards,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.4.70          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                   2.12.1-9        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applets-data       2.12.3-1        Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme         2.12.1-2        GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel              2.12.2-3        launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.8-alsa [gstre 0.8.12-1        ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-esd [gstrea 0.8.12-1        Enlightened Sound Daemon plugin fo
ii  libapm1                  3.2.2-5         Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.10.3-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.10.1-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.10.1-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdbus-1-2              0.60-6          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.60-6          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4              2.12.1-9        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.5.1-2       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.8.6-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2       2.12.2-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0              2.12.0.1-5      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.12.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.12.2-5        GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins0.8- 0.8.12-1        Various GStreamer libraries and li
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0        0.8.12-1        Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.8.12-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-5               2.12.2-1        Libraries for gtop system monitori
ii  libgucharmap4            1:1.4.4-3       Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libhal1                  0.5.6-4         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpanel-applet2-0       2.12.2-3        library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.10.3-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18                2.12.3-1        Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4  X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxklavier10            2.1-1           X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                  2.6.23.dfsg.2-2 GNOME XML library

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
ii  gnome-media                2.12.0-3      The GNOME Media Utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-applet     2.12.0-5      Network status applet for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-system-monitor       2.12.2-2      Process viewer and system resource
ii  imagemagick                6:6.2.4.5-0.7 Image manipulation programs

-- debconf information:
  gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit: false