Bug 490663

Summary: [Test Day] Two instances of gnome-disk-utility-format might both try to work with the same device
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Nowak <mnowak>
Component: nautilus-gduAssignee: Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: davidz, ohudlick, tbzatek, tsmetana
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Description Michal Nowak 2009-03-17 15:04:32 UTC
Description of problem:

Have two instances of ``gnome-disk-utility-format'' running, select "Create"; from that moment is the other instance blocked from playing with the device, until system asks for password "Authentication required to unmount device...", in that moment the other instance of gnome-disk-utility-format is again enabled and one can select "Create" and follow in formatting. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

nautilus-gdu-0.2-git20090309.1.fc11.x86_64
gnome-disk-utility-format-0.2-git20090309.1.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:

always

Actual results:

non-blocked multiple instances of g-d-u-format

Expected results:

blocked multiple instances of g-d-u-format

Additional info:

I did not try the whole (possible?) process of having two utils "creating" FS on the device (I wanna keep the media to be able to do more tests today than just one :).

Comment 1 Tomáš Bžatek 2009-03-19 15:00:11 UTC
Operations are handled by DeviceKit-disks daemon (backend) so there's no danger in two processes writing to the same device at the time (besides the kernel limitation). Operation stacks in the queue.

But I agree we should make sure user is notified about it. Perhaps detecting foreign operation on the device would make UI insensitive.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 12:18:37 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 11:29:52 UTC
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