Bug 712469

Summary: No Longer Navigate to Windows SMB Shares
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: my_linux
Component: ThunarAssignee: Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: axel.sommerfeldt, christoph.wickert, dwheeler, kevin, maurizio.antillon, maxamillion, pertusus
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Fixed In Version: Thunar-1.2.2-2.fc15 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description my_linux 2011-06-10 17:48:00 UTC
Created attachment 504177 [details]
Problem after all updates

Description of problem:
Go to Thunar click Network and navigate to Windows SMB shares is not possible after installing all x86_64 updates, gvfs-smb and setting SMB Client enabled in the Firewall. Installing only gvfs-smb after installing XFCE Spin the navigation process functions fine.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install all Fedora 15 XFCE spin updates and gvfs-smb.
2. Try to navigate to a Windows or other share using SMB.
3.
  
Actual results:
Can not navigate to share instead get asked what application to use.

Expected results:
Navigate to share.

Additional info:
See; http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=264875 and attached image.

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2011-06-10 20:14:35 UTC
Was Thunar updated in the updates you did? How about gvfs-smb? 

(You can check /var/log/yum.log) 

I'll look around and see if there is any known issues about this...

Comment 2 my_linux 2011-06-11 07:17:18 UTC
The following updates have been applied:

Jun 10 18:19:42 Updated: Thunar-1.2.2-1.fc15.x86_64
Jun 10 18:17:32 Updated: gvfs-1.8.2-1.fc15.x86_64
Jun 10 18:19:31 Updated: gvfs-obexftp-1.8.2-1.fc15.x86_64

The following was installed:

Jun 10 18:34:36 Installed: gvfs-smb-1.8.2-1.fc15.x86_64 - On it's own prior to applying any updates this is still working on a USB Live image with firewall set correctly.

Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2011-06-11 14:27:25 UTC
ok, if you 'yum downgrade Thunar' does it start working again? 

I'm not seeing any other reports of this... and I did see someone who had the updated one work as expected (I have 0 smb shares here to test against).

Comment 4 my_linux 2011-06-11 15:58:38 UTC
It's confirmed Thunar is causing this problem.

yum downgrade Thunar

Removed:
  Thunar.x86_64 0:1.2.2-1.fc15

Installed:
  Thunar.x86_64 0:1.2.1-5.fc15

After rebooting, logging in to XFCE, going to Network and navigating to share results in the logon window showing for password protected shares. So things work as expected.

Comment 5 my_linux 2011-06-11 16:01:00 UTC
Oh forgot to add the issue occurs on both x86 and x86_64 releases so something that has changed in Thunar 1.2.2-1.fc15 is likely causing the problem.

Comment 6 Kevin Fenzi 2011-06-11 18:13:43 UTC
Can you update to the new one again, then run 'Thunar' from a terminal and see if it produces any errors or output when you try and use the gvfs menu?

Comment 7 my_linux 2011-06-11 18:42:15 UTC
When Thunar is started from a user's terminal there is not additional output as such, you see the following:

[user@computer ~]$ thunar
[user@computer ~]$ 

Is there a way of doing a verbose start?

Comment 8 Kevin Fenzi 2011-06-11 19:16:46 UTC
Nope, there isn't any kind of verbose or debug flag. 

ok, next thing to try (and thank you for helping here to track this down): 

Can you make a new fresh user account, login as them and see if it works there? 
This will tell us if it's a local user setting somehow, or if the issue is system wide.

Comment 9 my_linux 2011-06-11 20:03:42 UTC
Nope creating a new user account does not help. The same issue also occurs when using a Live USB stick after applying the same updates too.

Comment 10 my_linux 2011-06-21 19:18:39 UTC
Has no one else reported this issue as it is on-going?

Comment 11 Christoph Wickert 2011-06-21 19:43:20 UTC
I received one report in the German Fedora forum, see
http://www.fedoraforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=21424

Comment 12 Kevin Fenzi 2011-06-25 18:13:49 UTC
ok, one change I see upstream in 1.2.2 is that they changed it so it does not load the network menu on startup, but only later on idle. 

So, can someone seeing this: 

- Update back to 1.2.2
- (re)Start Thunar
- Wait a few minutes and see if the menu shows up

Comment 13 my_linux 2011-06-26 07:27:29 UTC
The Network shortcut / menu is showing up instantly. I can go to Network > [Storage Server] >  see folders > click a folder and I get the box as shown in attachment.

Can you provide the upstream info in a link? This may help clarify things...

Comment 14 Kevin Fenzi 2011-06-26 14:48:39 UTC
ok, I misunderstood when the failure happened. 

I am going to file this upstream...

Comment 15 my_linux 2011-06-28 19:44:56 UTC
Can you provide the link for the upstream bug report?

Comment 16 Kevin Fenzi 2011-06-28 19:50:44 UTC
See the "external trackers" link above? :) 

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7774

Comment 17 my_linux 2011-06-29 15:04:01 UTC
Sorry not had a Bugzilla bug get moved up stream before so did not see that :-(

Comment 18 my_linux 2011-07-12 12:14:12 UTC
Wow doesn't seem this is going anywhere up stream too :-(

Comment 19 David A. Wheeler 2011-08-27 19:40:31 UTC
Great news!  Axel Sommerfeldt has identified the problem, and proposed a fix (as a patch) that works with Fedora 15.  Can we get that patch into the Fedora repository?

Comment 20 Kevin Fenzi 2011-08-27 19:57:39 UTC
Yep. I already had that on my todo list today. ;)

Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2011-08-27 21:24:30 UTC
Thunar-1.2.2-2.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/Thunar-1.2.2-2.fc15

Comment 22 Fedora Update System 2011-08-31 01:26:19 UTC
Package Thunar-1.2.2-2.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing Thunar-1.2.2-2.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/Thunar-1.2.2-2.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 23 David A. Wheeler 2011-09-02 14:47:51 UTC
SUCCESS!

I just got back from a trip and immediately tried "Thunar-1.2.2-2.fc15" per comment 22.

It works, beautifully.  The "bookmarks" now shows my SMB shares, which I can select, enter passwords, and access.  The URL locations look right, they have the usual format smb://[[domain;]username[:password]@]server[/share[/path]]

Thanks so much!  I look forward to seeing this in the regular repository.  I will nag upstream to get it in their main lines, so that this patch can eventually disappear.

Comment 24 Axel Sommerfeldt 2011-09-02 17:28:06 UTC
I doubt that it would be a good idea to put this patch of mine in the regular repository since I'm not a member of the XFCE team. So I think this patch should be approved by a XFCE team member first.

Comment 25 Fedora Update System 2011-09-09 05:23:20 UTC
Thunar-1.2.2-2.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.