When gparted opens mounted internal Ext* volumes will then show as unmounted in nautilus "Devices" & be removed from unity launcher

Bug #916906 reported by Doug McMahon
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Bug Description

Attached video will show
As gparted finishes scan the Device list in nautilus is refreshed, some mounted volumes will return as mounted, some will not

In the example here the 'Vista'/ntfs always properly returns, the '32GB FileSystem'/Ext4 always returns as unmounted even though in fact it still is mounted.
The 32 GB volume can't be 're-mounted' from nautilus unless one first truly unmounts the volume, either from gparted or otherwise or does a log out/in

Others have reported multiple volumes being 'unmounted' & consquently disappearing from unity launcher, I don't have the space to test more than 2, 1 ntfs, 1 ext 4

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gparted 0.8.1-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.14+jackdetection2-generic 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 15 14:39:30 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120108)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gparted
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
description: updated
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

Can you post the output of sudo mount before and after running gparted?

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

Using the same senario as in vid, both internal volumes mounted -
 sudo mount
[sudo] password for doug:
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/doug/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=doug)
/dev/sda5 on /media/c210e333-c0a9-47a9-a4c7-34210546bf1c type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sda3 on /media/Vista type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)

Opening gparted

doug@doug-XPS-M1330:~$ sudo mount
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/doug/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=doug)
/dev/sda5 on /media/c210e333-c0a9-47a9-a4c7-34210546bf1c type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
/dev/sda3 on /media/Vista type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)

It may be interesting to make some room & create a 2nd ext* volume & see if that also is reported as unmounted in nautilus when gparted opens

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

Well - went ahead & deleted my swap, then created a 2nd Ext 4 parition. Restarted, mounted all 3, (ntfs/Ext4/Ext4), ran gparted

This time both Ext 4 volumes disappeared from unity launcher & show as unmounted in nautilus while in fact there are both still mounted. So the 'issue' seems to center on Ext * mounted volumes.

screenshot shows, before gparted was run all 3 were shown mounted in nautilus & in the unity launcher.

Note that when opening gparted when the volumes aren't mounted will also show the Device section in nautilus being reset with obviously no ill effect. Someone that also has this issue has attributed that to a "mount changed" event from gparted

Doug McMahon (mc3man)
summary: - When gparted opens some mounted internal volumes will then show as
+ When gparted opens mounted internal Ext* volumes will then show as
unmounted in nautilus & be removed from unity launcher
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : Re: When gparted opens mounted internal Ext* volumes will then show as unmounted in nautilus & be removed from unity launcher

Also tried with latest gparted source, gparted-0.11.0, to the same effect in nautilus with Ext 2/3/4 mounted volumes
(if this is a nautilus bug then adjust as needed

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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

Looks like a nautilus/gvfs bug to me, but not very sure.

Doug McMahon (mc3man)
summary: When gparted opens mounted internal Ext* volumes will then show as
- unmounted in nautilus & be removed from unity launcher
+ unmounted in nautilus "Devices" & be removed from unity launcher
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

Does the same thing in 11.10, I probably should have used a bigger nautilus window in the vid - the ext. * volumes will then show up under "Computer"
As far as unity they must be unmounted , then remounted to return to the launcher which can be done in gparted or from nautilus's Computer section.
So in that regard should be fairly obvious to users..

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Lukáš Chmela (lukaschmela) wrote :

I can confirm the strange behavior. The ext4 devices show as unmounted in the Devices section in Nautilus when gparted is started and show up as mounted in the Computer section in nautilus (so they are present twice in the left Nautilus panel). They disappear from Unity panel completely.

Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

I believe this was fixed by a change in libparted for bug #1220165. Is anyone still seeing this in saucy?

Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

Well I definitely don't see in 14.04, have no 13.10 instal

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gvfs (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gvfs (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gparted (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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