[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#633771: thunar: useless error when ejecting removable media

[Art Ortenburger]

Package: thunar
Version: 1.2.2-1
Severity: minor

Sometimes when I eject [umount] an SDHC card from the Thunar, a useless but
inconvenient error dialog appears.

To produce the problem, I followed this routine:
Insert an SDHC card into a USB card reader.
Mount it by clicking its entry in the Thunar Shortcuts (side) Pane.
Browse some of the folders in the [camera] card.
Click the Eject button next to the drive label in the Thunar Shortcuts side
pane.

The problem is erratic, and does not occur every time. I got the impression
that browsing the files, selecting them, and opening them might increase the
rate of occurrence, but it doesn't seem tangibly related. To reproduce the bug,
I had to follow the routine several times, partially removing and re-inserting
the SDHC card each time to get Thunar to recognize it.
When it does occur, the error is a dialog message-box with no frame title, a
body heading of 'Failed to open directory "CANON_DC".' above the text
"Permission denied.", followed by a "[x]Close" button.

It seems harmless but annoying.

Kernel [not Wheezy standard; it's from Sid or Experimental] and uname -a
output:
Linux fenrisulfr-pup 3.0.0-rc2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 9 19:02:26 UTC 2011 x86_64
GNU/Linux
libc version is 2.13-7.
The SDHC card is a "Wintec filemate Professional" 16GB class 10. The reader is
an IOGear GUH286.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages thunar depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils            0.15-2     Utilities for .desktop files
ii  exo-utils                     0.6.2-1    Utility files for libexo
ii  libatk1.0-0                   2.0.1-1    ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.13-7     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                     1.10.2-6   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.4.12-4   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.94-4     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexo-1-0                    0.6.2-1    Library with extensions for Xfce
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.23.5-1   GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.28.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.24.4-3   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                171-1      GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.7-2  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.5.0-2    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.28.4-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.0-2  X11 Session Management library
ii  libthunarx-2-0                1.2.2-1    extension library for thunar
ii  libxfce4ui-1-0                4.8.0-2    widget library for Xfce
ii  libxfce4util4                 4.8.1-3    Utility functions library for Xfce
ii  shared-mime-info              0.90-1     FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  thunar-data                   1.2.2-1    Provides thunar documentation, ico

Versions of packages thunar recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.4.12-4   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gvfs                          1.6.4-3    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libfontconfig1                2.8.0-3    generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                  2.4.4-2    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  thunar-volman                 0.6.0-4    Thunar extension for volumes manag
ii  tumbler                       0.1.21-2   D-Bus thumbnailing service
ii  xdg-user-dirs                 0.13-2     tool to manage well known user dir
ii  xfce4-panel                   4.8.5-1    panel for Xfce4 desktop environmen

Versions of packages thunar suggests:
pn  thunar-archive-plugin         <none>     (no description available)
pn  thunar-media-tags-plugin      <none>     (no description available)

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