From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: After a few mount/unmount cycles of a removable storage device, Nautilus stops updating its display when the device is mounted. No volume icon is displayed on the desktop, but if "Browse removable device when mounted" is selected, the file manager window still pops up with the contents of the drive. This also coincides with all Nautilus windows stopping updating when their contents changes (eg. file creation/modification). I have noticed this with a USB Creative MuVo TX, USB Belkin SD-Card reader and IDE data CDs. The devices are still correctly mounted, can be read/written and can be unmounted from the command line, so it's clearly not a kernel or hardware problem. gam_server is still running when this happens and logging out and in again fixes the problem. I can find no relevant syslog entries. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.8.1-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mount and unmount a storage volume several times 2. Insert removable storage 3. Wait Actual Results: No icon is displayed on the desktop Expected Results: The desktop window should be updated with the volume icon Additional info:
I'm guessing it's a gamin problem: upgrading to gamin-0.0.19-1 seems to have fixed the problem for me.
No, ignore my last comment: it just took ~10 mount/remount cycles to happen instead of ~2 as it did before.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
This basic problem also exists in Redhat Enterprise 4. After some period of time, one's displayed Desktop stops updating with new or deleted files. One can "kick" nautilus/gamin by: killall gam_server killall nautilus
Fedora Core 3 is not maintained anymore. If you can reproduce this bug in Fedora 7 or 8 please reopen this bug.
(In reply to comment #5) > Fedora Core 3 is not maintained anymore. If you can reproduce this bug in Fedora > 7 or 8 please reopen this bug. When was this bug fixed in Redhat Enterprise 4?