Nauilusgamin stops showing directory changes

[barbara]

> Am Donnerstag, den 30.04.2009, 02:14 -0400 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke:
> > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 21:29 -0400, Jason Reid wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > >From time to time Nautilus will not keep up with directories as the
> > > files change. I cannot pinpoint the exact cause, but I can, for example,
> > > "touch newfile" in a directory or on my Desktop, and Nautilus will not
> > > show it until I open a Nautilus window to that directory/desktop and
> > > click View -> Reload.
> > > 
> > > Filesystem polling works fine after a reboot. Right now I have been up
> > > for 4 days and just noticed, but it's stopped working as quickly as an
> > > hour after boot. This is not a new problem with 2.26 and is something
> > > I've experienced since at least 2.20. My system is FreeBSD 7.1-p4 i386
> > > using a ZFS disk, but I've seen the same problem on the same computer
> > > under an old installation using UFS.
> > > 
> > > Some Googling reveals that Nautilus uses devel/gamin to poll changes
> > > which in turn uses kqueue by default. The port has a compile-time option
> > > for GAM_POLLER that I do not have enabled. Konqueror, however has never
> > > exhibited this problem.
> > > 
> > > The closest bug report I was able to find was
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=130859 from 2004 which I
> > > don't believe is applicable. It discusses gamin 0.0.x, and I use
> > > 0.1.10_1.
> > > 
> > > My kern.maxfiles is 25000. kern.openfiles reports 10735, and "fstat |
> > > grep gam_server | wc -l" reports 8890.
> > 
> > I cannot reproduce.  I've been up for over 10 days.  Make sure that
> > Nautilus is looking at a real path, and not a symlink.  Gamin does not
> > report changes on symlinks in line with the FAM spec.
> > 
> I have seen the problem Jason describes quite often with older versions
> of nautilus: for example when you use a different file manager like
> midnight-commander or thunar or when you log in remotely via ftp.
> I tried all these methods with nautilus-2.26.2
>                                              ^
> and couldn't reproduce them either.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Uli.


I rebooted my pc yesterday night, and this morning it was not working again.
I can see nautilius not refreshing after adding/removing files/directories from a terminal. It just works manually. Yesterday it was working so something happened.

And also
[bar at satanasso:~]$ sudo umount /mnt/data/
umount: unmount of /mnt/data failed: Device busy
[bar at satanasso:~]$ fstat | grep data
bar      gam_server  1197 4884 /mnt/data      2 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
[bar at satanasso:~]$ ps axuc | grep gam_server
bar         1197  0.0  0.2 20908  3580  ??  S    10:28PM   0:57.24 gam_server
root       72732  0.0  0.1 19884  2684  ??  I    11:27PM   0:00.01 gam_server

But now I've found that after:
[bar at satanasso:~]$ pkill -s HUP nautilus
I finally can
[bar at satanasso:~]$ sudo umount /mnt/data/


[bar at satanasso:~]$ pkg_info -Ix gamin nautilus-2
gamin-0.1.10_1      A file and directory monitoring system
nautilus-2.26.2_1   File manager for the GNOME desktop