Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:52:17 +0200 From: "barbara" <barbara.xxx1975@libero.it> Cc: jason <jason@jasonreid.org>, freebsd-gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Nauilusgamin stops showing directory changes Message-ID: <KIWLV5$435CC0E8EF7647BE72400DAF461BE84F@libero.it>
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> 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 examp= le, > > "touch newfile" in a directory or on my Desktop, and Nautilus will no= t > > 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 u= p > > for 4 days and just noticed, but it's stopped working as quickly as a= n > > 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 i38= 6 > > 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 opt= ion > > for GAM_POLLER that I do not have enabled. Konqueror, however has nev= er > > exhibited this problem. > > > > The closest bug report I was able to find was > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D130859 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. > > Joe > > > > > Thanks, Jason > > I can see similar things here. For example, yesterday I saved a file from the browser to my desktop and = I saw that it was not there until I opened nautilus, browsed to the deskt= op directory and pressed refresh. And this happens after some time or aft= er some unknown event. I'm also still experiencing inability to unmount because of gam_server ho= lding files or mount point under /mnt or /media. For example after inserting a number of data dvds, suddenly I'm unable to= eject or umount using gnome-umount without killing gam_server. But this = happens also with UFS filesystems mounted under /mnt. It seems to me that it's happening since gnome2-2.26, I'm pretty sure tha= t all was working as expected before. I have UFS filesystems, 7.2-PRERELEASE csupped and builded 4 days ago, GA= M_POLLER enabled.
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