After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 792300 - Shotwell does not prevent library auto-unmount and follow-up errors in DirectoryMonitor
Shotwell does not prevent library auto-unmount and follow-up errors in Direct...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: shotwell
Classification: Other
Component: alt-filesystem
0.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Shotwell Maintainers
Shotwell Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2018-01-07 13:41 UTC by Denis Mertz
Modified: 2021-05-19 15:11 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Log file with lots of DirectoryMonitor loop detected warnings (1.10 MB, text/x-log)
2018-01-07 13:41 UTC, Denis Mertz 		Details

Description Denis Mertz 2018-01-07 13:41:24 UTC 
Created attachment 366454 [details]
Log file with lots of DirectoryMonitor loop detected warnings

When the photo library is on an external disk with automount and timeout based auto-unmounting, then the following can be observed:
* after starting and loading the library, shotwell does not keep any file(s) or directory from the library open if it is not used constantly. (this can be checked with lsof)
* once the auto-unmount timeout is reached, the library directory will be unmouted
* then shotwell uses 100% of CPU, becomes unresponsive and fills the log with 'Directory loop detected' Warnings (cf. attachment)

While it's easy to workaround this bug by using a startup-script that does a "cd library-directory' before starting the real shotwell, it would be nice if the shotwell binary can ensure somehow that at least one file (or directory) from the library is always kept open to prevent that auto-unmount happens while shotwell is in use.

Thanks,
Denis
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-05-19 15:11:20 UTC 
-- GitLab Migration Automatic Message --

This bug has been migrated to GNOME's GitLab instance and has been closed from further activity.

You can subscribe and participate further through the new bug through this link to our GitLab instance: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/-/issues/4897.