Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 159748
No icon for automounted devices
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:43:29 EST
Description of problem: When I hotplug a USB storage device, I don't get any icon on the desktop even though the device is mounted. Downgrading to gamin-0.0.26-1 make things work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gamin-0.1.0-1.1 and a Fedora Rawhide system fully updated Mon Jun 6 2005. Should also affect FC4. How reproducible: Always (also had a collegue (jrb) reproduce this). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in to the GNOME desktop 2. Plug in USB storage device Actual results: There appears an icon in computer:/// in Nautilus for the storage device but it isn't the one for a mounted disk Expected results: Icon in computer:/// should change to that of the storage device but in the mounted state. Additional info: From a technical point of view, all this means that /usr/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon doesn't catch the change in /etc/mtab that occurs when gnome-volume-manager is invoking mount(1) (and mount(1) updates the /etc/mtab file). It's most likely a race condition of some sort. Of course, there is the possibility that this is a bug with gnome-vfs but since it works with gamin-0.0.26-1 (and fam before the gamin era) I doubt it. This was initially reported in bug 149199 since I mixed it up with another bug report - Sorry.
To avoid getting into the technical intricacies of that one let's just summarize as "dnotify sucks". I think I have a fix in gnome CVS head, but it's a rather large patch, I need to make a new release, that I will push as a FC-4 update as we are freezed at this point. Daniel
*** Bug 160886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 162968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Daniel, I'm closing this as ERRATA since a version that fixed this is available in Rawhide / FC4 updates. Hope that is OK.
Sure, thanks ! Daniel