Bug 436516 - Inconsistent mount point icons
Summary: Inconsistent mount point icons
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nautilus
Version: 8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-07 17:39 UTC by Paul Sorensen
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 06:07:50 UTC
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Description Paul Sorensen 2008-03-07 17:39:07 UTC
Description of problem:
When nautilus starts, mount point icons are added with random and inconsistent
behavior.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.20.0-8.fc8

How reproducible:
Inconsistent in some cases. Consistent in others.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new ext2 partition, Don't set the volume label.
2. Boot as normal
3. Login as root
  
Actual results:
Duplicate icons for each partition without a volume label.
One icon is real the other is a phantom. Clicking Unmount will unmount the
partition, and one icon will disappear as expected. However, the phantom stays
and is more or less useless. This behavior appears to be consistent,

Expected results:
One icon for each partition.



Additional info:
1. The default behavior is to mount every device it can find on the machine,
This is IMHO is a very dangerous policy. I have some partitions, which are
backups and good management policy dictates not mounting those partitions during
backup time. Also mounting foreign fstypes like ntfs might be undesirable.

2. Adding noauto option to the fstab prevents auto-mounting at boot time, but
Nautilus appears to not honor this. Disabled autofs, just to be sure it wasn't
confusing things. It is not.

3. Un-checked the options to mount removable media at insertion and when hot
plugged. Some partitions are mounted and some are not. All partitions in
question are on SATA drives of the same type plugged into the motherboard. So it
treats one drive as removable and another as not.

4. If a partition does not have a volume label, then 2 identical mount point
icons appear on desktop. Setting a volume label makes this one go away. However,
the device in question here was a removable flash card, so its inconvenient to
create volume labels for each card I have.

5. If you relabel a partition, Nautilus remembers the previous icon name. It
shows the different name and volume labels if you view properties. However,
this can be confusing if you don't realize there are 2 names. Only way to alter
the icon name appears to be to delete the .nautilus directory and have it
re-learn the names. Unless it is planned to allow editing of the icon name,
separate icon name and volume name makes little sense.

6. A suggestion, When displaying the properties for a mount point icon, it might
be useful to also display the real mount point and device. Use of volume labels
is prone to confusion, because the user can change these. The /dev designation
is usually most positive way of identifying a partition. I have observed
Anaconda assign more than one / volume labels. While Nautilus correctly
identifies duplicate volume names by appending the "(2)", it might be difficult
to determine which is which.
 
7. Another annoyance, but I believe this is a autofs problem rather than
Nautilus. However, nautilus inherits part of the problem. When creating a new
partition, as soon as it is formatted, autofs detects it as a new partition.
Nautilus immediately pops up the new icon. This is of course before I can do the
e2label command to set the label. So now I have to log out, enter a linux
console, login and delete the .nautilus directory to get Nautilus to relearn the
volume name, Disabling autofs during partition creation eliminates this problem.

8. Also observed. Boot to run level 3. Delete .nautilus directory, Then startx.
Repeating this gives different results some times. I have not seen it be
consistently inconsistent, but may be related to all the other issues.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:03:56 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 06:07:50 UTC
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