FS#13637 - [thunar] XFCE will not display sshfs mounts

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Scott (scottuss) - Monday, 02 March 2009, 22:45 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 04 October 2009, 21:21 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: When mounting SSHFS locations via the termial, XFCE will show the mount location but when trying to open it to view files, it flickers back to the previous directory, almost as if the location does not exist.

However, I have successfully mounted several SSHFS locations and can view them without problems using PCMANFM.


Additional info:
* sshfs 2.2-1 thunar 1.0.0-1




Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 04 October 2009, 21:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Scott (scottuss) - Monday, 02 March 2009, 22:51 GMT
Realised a fix: use Gamin instead of FAM. Although being able to use FAM or have some sort of graceful fail would be an advantage..?
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Tuesday, 03 March 2009, 16:20 GMT
Installing FAM alone will not slice it I think. It must be started as a service beforehand. Just a guess.
Comment by Scott (scottuss) - Tuesday, 03 March 2009, 20:14 GMT
I had FAM running as a daemon and it does the same. If you switch to Gamin (and disable FAM) then it works OK.
Comment by Smith Dhumbumroong (zodmaner) - Wednesday, 04 March 2009, 16:01 GMT
This is a known problem for quite sometime:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51185

The solution, as many have said before, is to use gamin instead of fam.

To avoid users encounter this problem again in the future, maybe we should advise user to use gamin instead of fam?

In fact, now that we have gamin, do we have any need for fam anymore? If not, then why don't we makes gamin our default file alteration monitor software to avoid confusion?
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 11:24 GMT
I don't know all places where fam/gamin are required and if gamin does it always better than fam. Someone may add a note to our Xfce wiki site about gamin recommendation.

We already have gamin in the optdepends array. Should we add there a note about fam issues with sshfs or a separate install message? Tobias?

Other than that we should close this here as "upstream" bug.
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 17:27 GMT
The thing is we can not build aginst gamin becuase things are not working when people are then running it against fam. I think I read that on the XFCE ML. So I'm not sure how we can resolve that because I think that gamin provides fam.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 04 October 2009, 21:21 GMT
http://osdir.com/ml/desktop.xfce.thunar.devel/2006-05/msg00077.html

For now we can't do much here. People will have issues whether we use fam or gamin at buildtime. So this is a won't fix for me and more likely an upstream issue.

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