From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: This bug might be difficult to reproduce for some. I'm using fedora core 3 test 2.91 on a older computer, a K6-3 400 cpu, 384 megs ram, matrox millenium... its very slow running gnome + nautilus. Here's how it worked, I had a nautilus window open to this directory (it's in list mode, as opposed to thumbnails/audio list/etc) /home/user/mp3 There's about 100 files in that directory. In gnome terminal I type mv *groove_armada* /home/test The nautilus window showing all the files in /home/user/mp3 starts going crazy, trying to keep up with the changes. (this probably wouldn't happen on a modern system, but on this k6-3 400, it does take more than a few seconds to update.) As the window continues to update the changes, I close the window before it finishes. ------------------------------------------ Thats where the problem starts, after this happened I couldn't use Rhythmbox, mplayer, ogg123.. nothing would work and not much was showing up in the process list that would give me any clues as to why the audio device was locked. (I also tried switching gstreamer's default audio sink, to no avail.) Next I executed lsof and was very lucky to stumble across this, gam_serve 2867 soros 27u CHR 116,16 6578 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p The "PCM" is what tipped me off. Next, I killed the gam_server process and audio starts working, everything is fine again. Audio alerts in gnome are on, piped through ESD IIRC. ---- My apologies if all of this is superfluous gibberish to interested parties reading. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gamin-0.0.9-1 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
The fact that nautilus monitors the device sounds the core of the problem. I'm reasigning for that module. But I'm changing gamin in 0.0.14 to not use kernel notification for /dev/ subtree which should also fix the problem. Daniel
Very strange. Was any nautilus window open showing /dev?
Alex said, "Very strange. Was any nautilus window open showing /dev?" No, the nautilus window was open to "/home/user/mp3" After issuing the mv command in a gnome-terminal, on roughly 30 or 40 files, the contents inside the nautilus window started jumping around, trying to keep up with the changes. I closed it before it finished making all of the changes... Rhythmbox was also open at the time.. hmmmm, I'll try to recreate this again to see whether or not it was just a fluke.
It might be another process, such as rhythmbox that was monitoring /dev.
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Closing per lack of response to previous request for information. This bug was originally filed against a much earlier version of Fedora Core, and significant changes have taken place since the last version for which this bug is confirmed. It has remained in NEEDINFO status for quite a long period of time, asking for confirmation on a more recent (still fully supported) version of Fedora Core. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. Please install a still supported version and retest. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not get to this bug earlier.