Hitting F5 to refresh a few times on an affected directory will also cause the file manager Nautilus/Nemo to lock up, probably waiting for gvfs, and not recover.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1528043 Title: gvfsd samba doesn't work well with Windows under certain circumstances Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When accessing shares that have files that aren't completely accessible to the logged in user gfvs will error, not show some files/folders, or not show any files/folders. Accessing folders such as C:/, C:/Users, or an actual users folder will cause the error. Simply navigate to one of these folders, you should not see all available files. If you refresh {f5} a few times you'll see all different behaviours. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: gvfs-backends 1.26.2-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-2.11-generic 4.3.0 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Dec 20 14:55:29 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-20 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021) SourcePackage: gvfs UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2015-12-20 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1528043/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

