Hey, I'm having one hell of a time with the gnome places menu, it seems that it's holding on to two old entries from the same usb stick, clicking on them (left-or-right) brings me this:

Unable to scan USB Drive for media changes
Cannot invoke CheckForMedia on HAL: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files

Yes, I did remove them without unmounting them. Although I think it's crap hardware (walgreens "corner office" brand) as well, as they took a very long time to unmount (so long that I was sure they were done).

I'd appreciate any help on the matter.