David Brenner Jr's Random Things

Debian 6.x/7.x relies on udisks to handle accessing, reading and writing of storage media. The utility udisks is an interface to the org.freedesktop.UDisks service on the system message bus. One of the benefits of udisks is to automatically mount storage devices for users without super user privileges, making them accessible via a UUID. Several problems have been attributed to udisks, like the following: Problem mounting external USB drive in Ubuntu 12.04 http://askubuntu.com/questions/150813/problem-mounting-external-usb-drive-in-ubuntu-12-04 Secure remove of external USB-HDD produces error https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/466575   Safely removing device generates error   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25657 The error message generated by udisks is always similar to: Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: Detaching device /dev/sdc USB device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2) SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: FAILED: No such fil