FS#4376 - amaroK doesn't monitor directories when using inotify

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Tuesday, 04 April 2006, 20:33 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 06 April 2006, 16:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Damir Perisa (damir.perisa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

KDE, by default, uses inotify to monitor directories if FAM or gamin is not running, and amaroK (IIRC) lets KDE watch directories for it. However, if I let KDE use inotify, amaroK doesn't notice if I delete files from a directory it's watching via some external means (e.g. a terminal). Is amaroK suffering from the same problem that briefly afflicted the gnome-menus package, trying to monitor things directly instead of letting other things do the monitoring for it?
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Closed by  Damir Perisa (damir.perisa)
Sunday, 19 November 2006, 17:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Thursday, 06 April 2006, 23:04 GMT
i have no idea where to investigate it... me running fam. also i think you should post a bug in bugs.kde.org against amarok for this kind... the amarok packaging is most probably not causing this observations you did, right?
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Friday, 07 April 2006, 10:51 GMT
I posted it here because I thought it might be a problem with the options used at compile time.

FWIW, if you want to use inotify only you just have to boot without running FAM. Try commenting it out in rc.conf, then KDE will only monitor local files...
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 23:37 GMT
please check if this is still the behaviour with 1.4.0

about fam: i don't use fam:

[damir@asteraceae amarok-base]$ more /etc/rc.conf | grep fam
[damir@asteraceae amarok-base]$
Comment by Seb Ruiz (sebr) - Sunday, 19 November 2006, 07:28 GMT
This bug is invalid as Amarok no longer uses inotify directly

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