Re: [gamin] [BUG?] Gamin locks up the machine in KDE

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:17:19PM +0100, Francesco Biscani wrote:
> I'm using gamin with inotify on KDE and I must say that it is very good. I 
> have only one complaint with it, i.e. it locks the machine under determined 
> circumstances. It happens when I try to unmount a device when Konqueror is 
> opened on the mountpoint of that device. The machine simply locks up. I think 
> it goes into a loop because after some seconds the fan of the laptop turns 
> on, as if there were a lot of CPU activity going on.

  Sounds like a loop in the inotify code in the kernel. 

> To reproduce the bug on my machine I just have to add a new device on KDE 
> desktop (for example an USB pendrive), click on it to open a Konqueror window 
> and then unmount the device (by right clicking on it on KDE's desktop and 
> selecting "Unmount"). I don't know if the problem really lies in Gamin or 
> KDE. For comparison when I try to do this with FAM the unmount fails because 
> FAM locks the mountpoint (I guess).
> 
> The bug appears in Gamin 0.19-0.20 and with Inotify 0.17-0.18. I must add that 
> I'm using a home-made kernel with some additions to vanilla 2.6.10 (nothing 
> that seems to conflict with Inotify, though). Do you have any hint?

  get the inotify developpers to look at the bug :-) Since it seems
reproductible that should not be too hard.

Daniel

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