Ejecting network drive causes nautilus to close

[Sutram]

This is with amd64 12.04 with the latest updates.

I have a windows file share that I can mount using nautilus. It shows up properly on the left bar. If I click the eject icon next to the mounted drive, nautilus ejects the drive and then closes without any error.

I looked at the nautilus icon on the unity launchbar and realized that nautilus just doesn't close that window but the entire application.

I consider this a bug. It should simply eject the drive without closing the nautilus window and the nautilus application.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 5 11:54:59 2012
GsettingsChanges: org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '800x550+649+128'
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, do you get an error report dialog when that happens? Could you run nautilus --quit, restart nautilus for a command line, do those steps and copy the output to the bug if there is any error printed there?

[Sutram (sutram)]

It took me a while to get back to my ubuntu computer.

Anyway, there is no error when I start nautilus from the command line. It just closes. This actually happens even if the drive is a USB drive. Pressing the eject button for the USB drive completely closes nautilus. I would expect just the drive to be unmounted and the drive icon to go away.

Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Steve Dodd (anarchetic)]

Just noticed this on 12.04 too. Looks like a difficult issue, because there are some situations where closing the window seems to make sense, e.g. if the window automatically opened when USB/optical media was inserted. OTOH, if I open a nautilus window by hand, double-click a DAV share, then "eject" the share, closing seems the wrong thing to do.

Would it be possible to keep track of the reason the window was originally opened, and change the behaviour based on that?

[Steve Dodd (anarchetic)]

Discusses this from the other angle, looks like the behaviour changed between 12.04 and 13.04:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2156088