gvfs-mounted SSH filesystem can't be unmounted or accessed after changing networks

[Philip Peitsch]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have run into this issue a few times on my laptop. I have both wireless and wired connections available, and have on occasion switched from the wireless to the wired by simply plugging in the wired network. Ubuntu seems to handle this mostly okay, except that any mounted ssh drives are no longer accessible. Clicking on these bring up the "Please wait while opening ....", and eventually time out with the following error:

Error unmounting mount: DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired or the network connection was brokne.

I can open a new connection (and get a duplicate icon on the desktop) by manually opening the location again, using alt+f2 and entering the address, e.g., ssh://servername . I haven't tried other types at this point due to the SMB bug still present.

I am not sure if this is a nautilus problem or not however... if it isn't can someone recommend which project would be a more suitable place to report this? I'm using Ubuntu Hardy with all the standard nautilus versions (1.2.22.3-0ubuntu2 i think)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, does using gvfs-mount -u on the location unmount it correctly?

[Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch)]

Yes. It does unmount successfully when doing that. After a few wrong commands I eventually figured out the right command is:

gvfs-mount -u sftp://servername/

This seems to unmount it correctly.... however, I now can't remount it using nautilus. Attempting to remount this drive immediately (using places > bookmarks > servername) fails, causing the gnome-panel to hang. After I kill the gnome-panel, and then try to remount the drive it then works though.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

changing to new, that seems to be a nautilus issue rather than a gvfs one

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you open the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org? since you seem to have a config triggering the issue you would be better placed to reply to their comments

[Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch)]

I've opened it at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539964

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending the bug to GNOME, adding an upstream bug watch now

[Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch)]

It has been marked a duplicate of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515217. May I add how you add an upstream watch for the Gnome bug?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can click on the project item next to the bugs table

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still get the issue on jaunty? I can unmount icons when the server is disconnected correctly there

[Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch)]

This appears to be resolved under Jaunty for me as well.

[Odin Hørthe Omdal (velmont)]

I still have this problem. I run Jaunty and can't disconnect now.

I'm transfering files and wanted faster connection, so I used cable. But it didn't use the cable, so I disabled wireless, to no avail. Impossible to unmount it now.

[Odin Hørthe Omdal (velmont)]

Even gvfs-mount -u doesn't work.

odin@bekk:~/Nedlasta$ gvfs-mount -u sftp://<email address hidden>
Error unmounting mount: DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

[Rubén Parra (rubenxparra)]

In 10.04 Alfa 1 and Beta, ocurred. Nois possible open the ssh nautilus.