[Bug 1336184] Re: USB flash drive (NTFS) keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes
When I plug in a FAT32 formatted pen drive, mount shows: /dev/sdc1 /media/sumedh/PenDrive vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=100,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2 0 0 The man page for mount says this about "flush": flush If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more early than normal. Not set by default. This tells me that the problem will be much less visible on FAT but there is likely to be a window of time where it can still happen. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1336184 Title: USB flash drive (NTFS) keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1336184/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1336184] Re: USB flash drive (NTFS) keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes
FYI, using FAT32 as filesystem does not cause the issue. As I reported, mounting FAT32 add the "flush" mount option which probably avoids the above issue. I have updated the bug title accordingly. I suspect that adding the same manually instead of "sync" as suggested in previous comment as workaround will work better since "sync" will write to disk too often compared to flush. With mentioned "dd" I got average of 1.6MB/s with "sync" while >4MB/s with"flush" or otherwise without anything on my old USB flash drive. Haven't tried "flush" with NTFS yet but from mount man page still does not seem like that it will guarantee anything. Proper fix remains issuing "unmount" and waiting for it in nautilus, nemo, caja. ** Summary changed: - USB flash drive keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes + USB flash drive (NTFS) keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1336184 Title: USB flash drive (NTFS) keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1336184/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1336184] Re: USB flash drive keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes
Workaround: apart from workarounds involving "sync" etc from command- line or always using command-line tools, the only way I have found to make all the GUI tools behave properly with "Eject" is to add the "sync" mount option. While an explicit fstab entry can do it, the more user friendly way is to open the gnome-disks utility, click on gears "More action" icon after the drive has been inserted, then "Edit Mount Options", then unselect automatic mount option in the new window, then add "sync" separated by a comma after the list of options that are shown in the fourth text box. One can select "/dev/sdb1" or whatever be the case in "Identy As" select box instead of the specific USB so that this works for all USB drives, but then it will not work for drives that are on other locations like /dev/sdc1. Perhaps one can repeat the same for all such possibiities, but one cannot be sure to cover all cases or cases where /dev/sdb1 is not a USB flash drive. This could potentially use the more complex matching criteria which I was a bit familiar with in the udev rules in older releases, but I don't know if that still works with the new infrastructure (perhaps need to look through udisks docs). Either way adding "sync" is just a workaround and not the solution to this problem since adding that potentially loses on a lot of overall performance benefits of kernel filesystem cache. Proper solution will be to correctly unmount the drive (e.g. like what "udisks --unmount /dev/sdb1" does) and then eject. Not sure how the software manages to eject without even unmounting in the first place. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1336184 Title: USB flash drive keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1336184/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1336184] [NEW] USB flash drive keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes
Public bug reported: Release: Ubuntu 14.04 Nautilus version: 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1 Expected: After pressing "Eject" on a flash drive (formatted with NTFS -- haven't tried with FAT yet) I expected it to return only after flushing and unmounting the drive so the drive is completely safe to remove at that point What happened: "Eject" returned after a short while. The drive still kept writing for a long time. Mount shows the drive still mounted for the period while the flash drive keeps blinking though "df" does not show the drive anymore. Removing the drive at this point results in partial file write and NTFS filesystem damage (fixable with ntfsfix but dangerous). Steps to reproduce: 1) Insert a flash drive (tried with NTFS mounted drive though I believe FAT will show similar behaviour though latter uses "flush" mount option so may not be that prominent) 2) Try copying a large file. For testing use a size that will also mostly fit into filesystem cache so that real wait for writing is during unmount: dd if=/dev/zero of=/media///test.out bs=1M count=1000 is the user name and the name where drive was mounted by nautilus as per the label. 3) "Eject" the drive from nautilus context menu after dd command above returns. 4) Eject returns shortly. However drive is still writing as seen by the blinking, or disk throughput in gkrellm, iostat. Also note that "mount" still shows the drive as mounted though "df" and other tools don't. I have confirmed the same issue exists on all similar file managers namely nemo and caja. Haven't filed bugs against those yet. For comparison, the gnome-disks system utility correctly unmounts, ejects and stops the drive (last one even powers down the drive so the LED on drive is switched off which one would expect nautilus "Eject" to also do) so it doesn't seem to be a bug in udisks2. ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1336184 Title: USB flash drive keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1336184/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 502668] Re: only 2 screen display modes
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37386732/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37386733/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37386734/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachment added: "XsessionErrors.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37386735/XsessionErrors.txt -- only 2 screen display modes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502668 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to yelp in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 502668] [NEW] only 2 screen display modes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: yelp there are only two display resolutions 800*600 and 640*480 both are very large. there are no more resolutions to select. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 5868c6a3bbe1bdd181a276388094935a CheckboxSystem: fc73f07fcd9845bb95fa3ca6b8be7ef2 Date: Mon Jan 4 00:02:35 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic SourcePackage: yelp Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686 ** Affects: yelp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- only 2 screen display modes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502668 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to yelp in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 216197] Re: no weather information in gnome panel
Well, my city (Bangalore/India) is in the list. I somehow always get 27*C / Realfeel 29.5*C, Wind speed 5.1 m/s etc Basically, this information *never* changes. The interesting point, however, is that the icon that shows the weather icon does change intermittently, and possibly, accurately too. It now shows "broken clouds" (which is also what forecastfox plugin in firefox is showing). Thanks, Sumedh On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:31 PM, chris_andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems to be related: > > I have the weather applet installed, and it doesn't always update, > sometimes going for days without doing so. If I remove the applet and > re-add it, then the update is performed. I can confirm that my > networking is fine. > > Thanks, > > Chris. > > -- > no weather information in gnome panel > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216197 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- no weather information in gnome panel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216197 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 216197] Re: no weather information in gnome panel
Greetings, I do not know if this is related, but somehow the weather information is *never* getting updated! I am using Hardy that is up-to-date as of 03-aug-08. My question is: how does the clock retrieve the weather information? Is it from a particular site like weather.com? -- no weather information in gnome panel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216197 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
