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nautilus package

Mounting removable drives causes blank windows in other sessions

Bug #312559 reported by Doughy on 2008-12-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #222643: removable medias mounted for every user logged. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

My wife and I frequently are logged in to the same computer. We use the user switcher to jump back and forth between sessions. If my wife mounts a removable drive, like the SD card from our digital camera, it creates blank (totally white with no border) windows in MY account. I can't get rid of them, because they don't have a close button or window border. If I try to use the "Force Close" applet from my gnome panel, it says that Nautilus has crashed and cannot be restored. I then get a desktop where all my icons are gone.

I've attached screenshots of the white windows and the nautilus crash. I can post log files if it would be helpful. Just tell me what's needed.

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Doughy (doughywilson) wrote on 2008-12-30:

Blank windows caused by mounting a SD card in another session. Edit (597.2 KiB, application/octet-stream)

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Doughy (doughywilson) wrote on 2008-12-30:

Nautlius crashes when a force quit from gnome panel is performed on white windows. Edit (1.0 MiB, image/png)

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Doughy (doughywilson) wrote on 2008-12-30:

Blank windows caused by mounting a SD card in another session. Edit (597.2 KiB, image/png)

Woops, that first attachment doesn't have the right file extension. Here's the update.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2008-12-30:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 222643, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.