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[DavidBriscoe <597092@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In order to work around this bug, you can run `sudo palimpsest` from a
terminal. Unfortunately, most users would have a hard time figuring out
that palimpsest is the name of the app. (I did. I had to run check the
running processes.)

#3: It's great that root isn't required just to run palimpsest because
the app has a lot of useful features that don't require root. (Maybe
these are new features that used to be exclusive to gparted?) I think a
better quickfix would be to change the error to add "run sudo
palimpsest" or to have an option that restarts the program as root.
(Unless you mean adding a new launcher.)

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Title:
  palimpsest cannot unmount partition in fstab

Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

  When trying to unmount an internal partition, ie one defined in fstab,
  palimpsest reports something along the lines of:

  Error unmounting: umount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
  umount: only root can unmount UUID=b40a9324-52c8-4733-a460-ac5648da5d06 from /g

  I would expect palimpsest to trap this error and then prompt for admin
  privileges and to retry, in the same way it prompts for your password
  if you ask it to format a drive.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.30.1-1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.34-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 1bd8e90541d49b96c13cbfcc9baf103b
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  Date: Tue Jun 22 11:35:05 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_AU.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility

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