nautilus + amd/am-utils is bad news.

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 23:44 -0500, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use the automounter, amd to manage my usb flash drives and the like
> into directories in the custom /volume hierarchy. I've also managed to
> avoid ever navigating into this hierarchy with nautilus because it
> breaks the automounter's ability to umount the filesystem when I'm done
> with my flash drive. The symptom is this:
> 
>       Mount the flash drive:
> 
>             $ ls -l /volume/ufs0
> 
>       Navigate to the flashdrive with nautilus and do some work.
> 
>       Either wait for the mount to timeout or for it to with amq:
> 
>            $ amq -u /volume/ufs0
> 
>       At this point nautilus is holding a resource open in /volume/ufs0
> and the automounter cannot timeout the mount and umount the flashdrive.
> If I suspend my laptop at this time The flashdrive will be umounted
> dirty and I will have to fsck it before I can use it again. 
> 
> Is there any way to tell nautilus that the directory /volume is under
> control of the automounter and that it shouldn't be probing/holding
> resources open within it after the user stops actively manipulating
> things there e.g. closes the nautilus window on /volume/ufs0 or changes
> the directory?

It's probably gnome-vfs you will want to poke around in.  Of course,
this is what HAL was designed for, so you might consider switching to
that.

Joe

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