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

[Francesco Biscani <bluescarni gmail com>]

On Monday 10 January 2005 14:51, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok, I will. Thanks for the response,

  Francesco