Does #493565 qualify as a common bug?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Nov 24 18:17:36 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:47 +0200, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen bug 493565 - "fuse mounts may hang on xattr retrieval causing
> numerous problems" on multiple systems. Probably the most common symptom
> of this bug is Nautilus showing an empty Home folder because it's trying
> to read ~/.gvfs, which blocks. Would this one qualify as a common bug?
> Some people on Linux forums seem to be able to temporarily fix the
> problem just by rebooting, I've always had to do an fsck.

rule of thumb: if it's more than a trivial issue, more than a couple of
people experience it, and the workaround isn't stunningly obvious, then
yes, it would be valuable to have it on common bugs page. so, yes,
please add this! thanks.

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