GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 597060
The list of hosts under network:/// is often out of date
Last modified: 2018-09-21 16:54:38 UTC
The list of hosts under network:/// is often out of date, containing hosts that no longer exist and missing some hosts that have recently joined the smb network. I can see an updated list going to smb:///, where I see a "workgroup" icon, and then under smb://workgroup/, where I see the full list of available hosts. I'm reporting this bug upstream from Ubuntu's bugtracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/248839
Seems similar to the Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525875 . Does killing the gvfsd-network and -dnssd processes help?
Hi James, sorry for the very long delay in answering, I changed job and had no longer access to the machine & network where I first noticed the issue. I've recreated a similar situation and your suggestion seems to do the trick: after I killall gvfsd-network && killall gvfsd-dnssd, the list in network is updated.
(In reply to comment #2) > I've recreated a similar situation and your suggestion seems to do the trick: > after I killall gvfsd-network && killall gvfsd-dnssd, the list in network is > updated. Killing these two no longer seems to do the trick for me. I have to re-negotiate the connection with Network Manager before the correct list of hosts appears in network:///.
This is still present, as far as I can tell in GNOMEs 3.0 and 3.2. Killing the gvfsd bits still no longer works, and as far as I can tell this isn't an Avahi problem as avahi-discover always picks up new hosts. Any progress in fixing this? It's over two years old. Surely it's not difficult to accurately re-query the Avahi-daemon as it's native tools do.
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