Re: Fam, still a problem in new nautilus
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:19:13PM -0500, Luis M wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 03:44, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> > Yesterday, I was hurt (again) by the fam bug (cannot unmount cdroms).
> >
> > I think I know approximatively the reasons etc.
> > I think I never saw an answer to this problem beyond 'remove fam' (yes,
> > I can, but when my other users drop a file on their desktop, they expect
> > it to show up, not only by opening a window to ~/Desktop and hit
> > refresh).
>
> The solution is simple:
> 1. make sure fam is started by the init.d script and not by inet
OK.
> 2. make sure you edit the fam config file and tell it not to poll
> remote filesystems (nfs, smb, whatever)
Did not find that in fam.conf, nor in fam.conf(5).
> 3. wait X number of seconds after you close Nautilus window on whatever
> dvd/cdrom you mounted or logout and log back in... and finally,
Gasp. Argh. I die from this answer.
> 4. /etc/init.d/fam restart ; when you want to get rid of the CD and you
> can't wait.
Hardly an answer either.
So, this is completely fucked up.
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JCD
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