I have the same problem sometimes
However, restarting dbus fix the problem for me, so yes, it probably is a bug:
sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
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Mounted HDD partitions aren't shown on Desktop (Feisty Fawn)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/93314
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 75849 ***
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 75849
Time/Date: Cannot synchronize with NTP servers
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NTP package for ntp syncronization support can't be installed in feisty 7.04
https://launchpad.net/bugs/76706
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Same happens to me on Dapper Drake 6.06.1 ...
Using spca5xx too, webcam is a Genius VideoCAM Express
When I plug in the cam, and I use a webcam program (amsn in my case),
and I stop the webcam transfer in amsn, and I plug the webcam out,
everything hangs for a second or 2 (music etc. stops for 2
I'm almost sure that the bug is related to spca5xx, and it also happens
with other webcam programs, not just Ekiga
I would also raise importance, because 99% cpu usage is not fun to work
with, and other USB devices can't connect/reconnect anymore! Killing the
khubd process won't work either!
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I have the same problem in Dapper when I try to add an ftp server using
authentication.
Opening it in nautilus itself using Network servers works fine,
but opening it with the menu gives the error message you are talking about:
Could not open location 'ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/FOLDER'
There
Sorry guys! In my case the problem (on Dapper) happened because I tried
Firefox 2 and I installed it locally in one of my subfolders in my /home
folder, and it seems like Firefox 2 changed the default value of
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp to point to the Firefox 2 binary, but
recently, I