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["Andreas E." <1310186@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder what is the benefit of scanning external drives that are
mounted only temporarily, especially when connecting other people's USB
sticks.

Since mediascanner is a process that was not launched manually by the
user, the confirmation on removal (device busy) is redundant, instead
mediascanner could probably shutdown silently whenever unmounting of the
device is requested (ie. unmounting should be done by no more than one
click in nautilus sidebar etc.).

The risk of bricking your own or even worse other people's USB stick by
improper removal (if a process is unperceivedly still running on the
drive) is too high so that it is questionable whether mediascanner
should run at all on external drives. I think this is a very critical
situation.

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Title:
  mediascanner prevents unmounting usb device

Status in mediascanner2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Trying to unmount a block device I just mounted, I get the following
  error (sorry for not resetting the locale. It says "Device is busy"):

  :~$ sudo umount /media/tkluck/tjk-backup 
  umount2: Apparaat of hulpbron is bezig
  umount: /media/tkluck/tjk-backup: apparaat is bezig
          (Welke processen het apparaat gebruiken kan mogelijk
           gevonden worden met behulp van lsof(8) of fuser(1).)
  umount2: Apparaat of hulpbron is bezig

  I get the same error in a dialog window when trying to unmount from
  the file manager.

  Using lsof shows that the media-scanner daemon is the culprit:

  tkluck@ultrabook-tjk:~$ lsof /media/tkluck/tjk-backup 
  COMMAND    PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF     NODE NAME
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   16r   DIR  252,3   249856        2 /media/tkluck/tjk-backup
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   17r   DIR  252,3     4096 50855937 <REDACTED>
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   18r   DIR  252,3     4096 39080372 <REDACTED>
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   19r   DIR  252,3    12288 39080513 <REDACTED>
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   20r   DIR  252,3    20480 39080525 <REDACTED>
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   21r   DIR  252,3     4096 46792990 <REDACTED>
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   22r   DIR  252,3     4096 46792991 <REDACTED>
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   23r   DIR  252,3    16384 46793749 <REDACTED>
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   24r   DIR  252,3     4096 47317994 <REDACTED>
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   25r   DIR  252,3     4096 47317997 <REDACTED>
  mediascan 2898 tkluck   26r   DIR  252,3     4096 47317999 <REDACTED>

  Sending it

  sudo kill -9 2898

  solved this for me.

  This is on Ubuntu GNOME 14.04. I uninstalled the mediascanner2.0 to
  solve this "once and for all" (which has no other impact since I do
  not use Unity).

  My guess is that the scan usually finishes quickly after mounting. But
  because this particular drive contains a big filetree, it doesn't,
  resulting in the issue.

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