Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 146570
mounted devices sometimes don't show on desktop
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:42:41 EST
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: Mounted CDs, FlashDisk, Camera etc., although automatically mounted to the filesystem, sometimes just don't show on my desktop, sometimes they do but mostly with crippled labels. To eject a CD, I have to issue the umount command manually, with mixed results (it sometimes complains that the device is busy). Once my camera (usb mass storage device) didn't even mount to the filesystem at all. Example 1: I plug in a USB flash disk, the icon appears with a strange name "Ao". It is mounted as /media/Ao Example 2: I insert a CD, it mounts to /media/cdrecorder, but the icon doesn't show. I try to browse the CD using Nautilus (Computer->CD RW Drive->...) but it says (Unable to mount blah blah). But the icon then shows and I am able to browse the CD. Example 3: I insert a CD, it mounts to /media/cdrecorder, but the icon doesn't show. I browse it's content using MC. After I am finished, I change the working directory to home, properly quit the MC, but the CD refuses to umount, because it's "busy" (user root). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ? - 0.4.7-1 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert a removable device 2. Pray Additional info: FC3 with all recent bugfixes applied.
What you're seeing is probably a bug with gamin insofar that the gnome-vfs-daemon doesn't get an event from gam_server when a disk is mounted. I also think, FWIW, this is fixed with the latest updates.