Bug 149187

I downgraded to 0.0.17 and I'm not seeing this problem anymore.

The same problem makes removable medial like a USB memory stick
or a USB floppy practically unusable. gam_server grabs references,
apparently multiple ones, to mount points and makes unmounting
without killing gam_server process impossible.  Even the later
seem to depend heavily on timing and if one is late with umount
then the whole game has to be restarted again.

If one will manage to kill gam_server and unmount a floppy then
putting a new floppy in a drive does not seem to have any effect
even if another gam_server process was restarted.  One has to
replug a USB floppy enclosure before it is recognized again.

Interestingly enough the above does not happen for CDs.  Are they
special-cased in the code?

Backing off to gamin-0.0.17-1.FC3 makes floppies unmountable
again but an icon for a USB floppy drive does not show up even
after hitting "Reload" in a "Computer" window.  Interestingly
enough what brings it is clicking on "Floppy Drive" icon in
"Computer" while no media are present.  This is causing an error
but also makes an icon for a "Removable Media" to show up both
in "Computer" window and on a desktop.  With 0.0.17 this still
can be unmounted.

All the above is not particular to i386.

i am experiencing the exact same problem this is one annoying bug and
has already cause the corruption of one usb key

i dont know what the deal is this is a lesser version number than the
one that is available on the site but this gamin appears to work
perfectly. 
http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/RPMS/FC3/i386/gamin-0.0.20-1.i386.rpm

all of a sudden my usb key can unmount.

A report I got from a friend with a USB memory stick is that if
you will let it "hotplug mount", and will _not_ open any file
manager windows to a corresponding directory but use a command
line operations to move files in and out, then gam_server is not
sticking to directory handles and unmounting is possible without
doing 'pkill -f gam_' or equivalent.

Someone mentioned that this does not happen with CD's.  But I have
this problem with both my CD-ROMs.  Although it doesn't happen unless
I browse the CD with Konqueror.  After that I am forced to umount like
this:
      ]$ fuser -k /mnt/cdrw
      ]$ umount /dev/cdrw

I have this problem with a memory stick.  After attempting to umount
the stick via the KDE icon, `ps -ef` shows me there are 2 (two)
gam_server processes like this:
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
russell   6295     1  0 10:37 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server
root     11709     1  0 15:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server

I can force the umount by using the following (as root):
kill -HUP 6295;umount /media/usbdisk/

In other words, I only have to hang-up the process that is owned by
me.  Subsequently, KDE, or whatever, is reestablishing a new user
process as seen here:
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root     11709     1  0 15:55 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server
russell  14433     1  0 16:58 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server

I know about the issue, just didn't found the cause yet.

Daniel

I halso have this problem with the 0.24 update and USB sticks.
However, the 0.25 SRPM from http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/SRPMS/ fixes
the problem for me.

yes 0.0.25 should fix this problem, well I made the release specifically
after finding the bugs related to this, so I hope this is fixed, it works
for me with FC3 and 0.0.25,

Daniel

A quick check on x86_64 indeed seem to confirm that 0.25 works as
intended.  This was not a very extensive testing.

Reopening -- Daniel, this clearly needs an FC3 update, since it is a regression
since FC3 release.

It is being pushed to FC-3 and if the build system didn't took 7 hours to
compile it, and 12 more hours to get someone to approve it, it would be
pushed out already !

Daniel

after installing gamin-0.0.25-1 files only appear in nautilus after hitting refresh

w.r.t. comment #14, this works for me. I tested it specifically. So you will
have to provide a reproductible test case including paths used etc ... in a new
bug report after being sure to have restarted all running gam_server 
I will close that bug once 0.0.25 is finished pushing to FC-3

Daniel

sorry daniel,  i though that when installing the rpm ot would have restarted
gam_server right after installation.  after restart it worked perfectly.  thanks

better :-)

Daniel

Pushed to FC-3 updates,

Daniel

it works fine for me.  After installing the update, I can now mount
and unmount the thumb drive using the KDE icon.  Thanks!