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gvfs package

  1. Bug #435136
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 435136

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Jonathon Fernyhough (jfernyhough) wrote :

OK, so I've spent a few hours trying to track down a possible cause of this bug as it also affects palimpsest (Disk Utility); when run both would exit with the device_recurse error. However, a Maverick install in a VirtualBox VM didn't have these issues, hence it must be hardware-dependent (I also tried Debian squeeze versions of g-d-u and libgdu).

I have a Dell Studio 17 (1749) into which I have connected an external USB keyboard and mouse - and with a sudden flash of inspiration I unplugged both and tried running palimpsest. Surprise - runs correctly. Even when I plugged both back in palimpsest ran correctly, as did gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor. I normally boot with both devices connected, hence the error will occur when the machine is started.

Could it be that g-d-u is trying to find filesystems on USB peripherals?

lspci is attached.