User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02 Build Identifier: Thunar 1.2.3 After mounting and unmounting 1 to 4 removable devices from the computer, some of the devices are not accessible whit Thunar any more. After it happens to one device, it happens to others to. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mount and Unmount a device 2-4 times Actual Results: The device is accessible from bash whit out problem. In Thunar, the device and / or some of the directories on it is listed like a broken link. Screenshot of a Device where 2 out of 4 Directories are not accessible: http://heldenschmiede.ch/other_stuff/thunar_bug_1.png http://heldenschmiede.ch/other_stuff/thunar_bug_2.png If I try to access the Video directory, this window open: http://heldenschmiede.ch/other_stuff/thunar_bug_3.png Expected Results: Open the directory. I use Xubunt LTS whit all Updates Installed. The Problem exists since months, but I didn't found any thing about it. My Laptop runs often several days, some times whit some hibernate to ram periods. The home directory is encrypted. It happens to all my removable file systems whit FAT 16/32. A restart solves the problem for a while. Restarting "gvfs-gdu-volume" didn't help.
Created attachment 4686 View of /media in Thunar
Created attachment 4687 View of /media/SicStick (the mounted device whit the error) in Thunar
Created attachment 4688 Screnshot of the "Open Whit" Dialog when try to acces the directory on the device
Did you manually unmount (other application or using terminal), because Thunar 1.4.x and lower does not support unmount, only eject.
I use "eject" in Thunar and umount in a terminal around for the same amount of time. I assume "eject" does unmount the file system and after eject the physical medium. But all my removable storage is either USB drives or SD cards and are don't have the capability of eject the medium automatically. I don't have a CD drive to test eject, but will test if the bug is still there if I only use eject in Thunar or only use umount.
Eject asks the system to disconnect from the drive as well, so even it doesn't spit out your usb-pen, it is removed as a hardware device (so others cant reconnect when you reach to physically pull it out).
This this and it seems to be fine in master.
I did some testing while normal days of working whit the computer. It happen regardless of if I only use umount or eject from Thunar. But good to hear it is fixed in the new version. Thanks!