Ubuntu
hal package

  1. Bug #95368
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 95368

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swork (steve-ubuntu-launchpad) wrote : Re: (feisty) unmounting a device icon on desktop gives an error dialog

Looks to me like UTF-8 in a volume name trips things up. iPods get named things like "Steve's iPod" by default, where the apostrophe is somewhere up in Unicode space. I got a three-number \nnn\nnn\nnn sequence in .hal-mtab in place of the apostrophe, and saw this problem. When I wiped .hal-mtab, rebooted (maybe unnecessary, I'm new to Ubuntu and didn't know how to restart gnome-volume-manager) and renamed the iPod (using a Mac) to an all-ASCII name this problem went away for me.

Check the encoding and decoding of the mountpoint pathname in .hal-mtab.