[feisty] gnome/nautilus doesn't allow sshfs mount icon 'eject' / 'delete'

[Jordan Erickson]

Binary package hint: nautilus

From Freenode/#ltsp IRC Chat (edited for relevant content):

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lns ...not being able to remove an accidentally mounted ssh volume icon from the desktop...

ogra-classmate yeah, the ssh volum4e is a deswign problem
ogra-classmate well, its a feature
ogra-classmate using local devices doesnt need an eject option, so that is disabled globally in the gui for all users on thin clients automatically
ogra-classmate indeed that brings probs if you have something like sshfs volumes

lns so it sees sshfs volumes as local devices?

ogra-classmate no, because you use a thin client eject is globally disabled
ogra-classmate we're working on an implementation that uses virtual hal devices for gutsy

vagrantc lns: are you actually using sshfs, or LTSP's local devices support?

ogra-classmate there is will be possible to specify unmounting functionallity per device and that prob should be solved
ogra-classmate vagrantc: i assumed sshfs

* vagrantc makes no assumptions when troubleshooting or bug reporting

lns vagrantc, to tell you the truth i'm not sure - the principal at the school accidentally mounted an ssh volume from a client and couldn't 'unmount/eject/move to trash'

lns it was sshfs

vagrantc ok.

lns at least that's what the icon said (ssh)

ogra-classmate likely from the network servers dialog in gnome

lns ogra-classmate, yes
lns when he tried to drag to trash it said permission denied or similar

ogra-classmate you can tell him its a design bug we're aware of and are working on to solve it ;)

lns ogra-classmate, yes i will for sure.

ogra-classmate but dont hesitate to file it please, my brain is a sieve sometimes, having reminder bugs helps a lot :)
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Please let me know if there is more information I can provide.

- Jordan

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you make a summary of the bug, we get hundred of desktop bugs every week and having to parse one screen of IRC log to understand what the bug is about doesn't make the work easier

[Jordan Erickson (lns)]

Sure Sebastien - sorry for the delay, I didn't know you replied.

If you mount an sshfs volume in Gnome using Nautilus, you don't have the ability to "eject" or "unmount" it - it gives you a "Permission denied" or similar message.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you describe how you mount a volume using sshfs from nautilus?

[Jordan Erickson (lns)]

Like I said before, I am not completely sure how he mounted it - it could have been from the "Places -> Network" or "Places -> Connect to Server" dialog (not technically Nautilus?), but when he brought me over to show me, it was already mounted on his desktop. I simply tried to right-click/"Unmount Volume", but it gave me an error, not unlike what you see when you manually mount an SSHFS volume using the 'sshfs' command.

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"Unable to unmount the selected volume.

Error: Could not determine real path of the device: no such file or directory."
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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

That works fine here, tested with Feisty and with Gutsy. I've just mounted them with Places->Connect to server.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this report for now, feel free to re open it if you experience the same problem with Gutsy, thanks in advance.