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[Joe Areeda <newsreply@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/31/2011 09:19 AM, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:44:49AM -0700, Joe Areeda wrote:
>> Well after saying it worked, the reporter came back and said it happened
>> again.
>>
>> An important piece of information is that the problem only occurs with
>> network drives.  I have a request in for what protocol he's using.
>>
>> I have seen the problem with samba shares.  It seems that the discovery
>> process Nautilus uses can hang indefinitely on drives that can be
>> mounted.  With some command line smbclient and more specification on the
>> URI I can get Nautilus to work with the same share that hung Nautilus
>> previously.
>>
>> I am now working on a clean repeatable sequence.
> Great!  Then we can work on testing it in Natty and forwarding the bug
> report upstream if necessary.
>
> --
> Brian Murray
> Ubuntu Bug Master
This is maddening but informative.

One day it happens almost every time next two days, while looking for a
sequence it works every time on every system I try.

The only thing that /might/ be different is the network stability.  I do
most of my testing in front of the TV over a power line AV link to my
wired network.  Most of the time it's rock solid but occasionally
transfer rates go down and perhaps it's dropping packets.

I haven't given up yet.

Joe