Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 12:31:36 +0200 From: "barbara" <barbara.xxx1975@libero.it> To: "ulrich" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> Cc: jason <jason@jasonreid.org>, freebsd-gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Nauilusgamin stops showing directory changes Message-ID: <KIYNWO$CE6B500CE973B054A4C4CE42F12155DB@libero.it>
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> 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 th= e > > > files change. I cannot pinpoint the exact cause, but I can, for exa= mple, > > > "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 an= d > > > 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 somethi= ng > > > I've experienced since at least 2.20. My system is FreeBSD 7.1-p4 i= 386 > > > using a ZFS disk, but I've seen the same problem on the same comput= er > > > under an old installation using UFS. > > > > > > Some Googling reveals that Nautilus uses devel/gamin to poll change= s > > > which in turn uses kqueue by default. The port has a compile-time o= ption > > > for GAM_POLLER that I do not have enabled. Konqueror, however has n= ever > > > exhibited this problem. > > > > > > The closest bug report I was able to find was > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D130859 from 2004 whic= h 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 no= t > > 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 aga= in. I can see nautilius not refreshing after adding/removing files/directorie= s from a terminal. It just works manually. Yesterday it was working so so= mething happened. And also [bar@satanasso:~]$ sudo umount /mnt/data/ umount: unmount of /mnt/data failed: Device busy [bar@satanasso:~]$ fstat | grep data bar gam_server 1197 4884 /mnt/data 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r [bar@satanasso:~]$ ps axuc | grep gam_server bar 1197 0.0 0.2 20908 3580 ?? S 10:28PM 0:57.24 gam_se= rver root 72732 0.0 0.1 19884 2684 ?? I 11:27PM 0:00.01 gam_se= rver But now I've found that after: [bar@satanasso:~]$ pkill -s HUP nautilus I finally can [bar@satanasso:~]$ sudo umount /mnt/data/ [bar@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
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