As I recall, this bug is about getting the error message "destination is
read-only" on a drive which has become read-only one time during a login
session despite remounting or inserting other drives which get the same
device name.
If you don't see this error message, then your bug is a different
The same problem can happen in Thunar. For some cases Nautilus itself
needs an additional patch, but the underlying problem was identified and
fixed in glib. Unfortunately the fixed version is not available in
Ubuntu yet. See the Thunar bug for more details, and thanks go to Nelson
Benitez for
I've found this bug on Ubuntu 17.10 with Thunar version 1.6.12-1
yesterday, and after a bit digging found the root cause in the gio part
of glib:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787731
They have found it using Nautilus earlier and created a fix, which was
released in glib-2.55.
