EDIT: Removed links as this is now fixed upstream and in portage<\/p>\n
So, many of us enjoy GNOME’s super-efficient integration with inotify via gamin and hal, which allows nautilus to show file updates in real-time, as well as file browsers automatically opening when a CD is inserted, or usb stick is plugged in, etc.<\/p>\n
However, the above has been a bit broken for a while. Gentoo Bug 74285<\/a> has the details – basically, the media change notification stuff sometimes works once if at all, but then never again in that session.<\/p>\n The fix is a total rewrite of the inotify backend inside gamin. Unfortunately, due to major changes in gamin cvs, this isn’t easy to backport into the latest release (0.0.26). So it looks like using a CVS snapshot of gamin may be in order.<\/p>\n The plan is to test out the CVS snapshot that I have produced, which will then be added to portage when Linux 2.6.12 is released, assuming we don’t find any big bugs in the snapshot.<\/p>\n I’ve produced a gamin snapshot(link removed) from GNOME developer CVS as of right now, with patches from GNOME Bug 303612<\/a> and GNOME Bug 303615<\/a> applied.<\/p>\n If you are a GNOME+gamin+hal+inotify user, here’s what you can do to help test this:<\/p>\n To test it, open nautilus on your home directory. Then open a terminal, with both windows visible on screen. In the terminal, create\/rename\/delete some files, and ensure that nautilus is updated in real-time. Please leave feedback here – even if it works perfectly! If we get enough testing, we’ll be able to finally solve this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EDIT: Removed links as this is now fixed upstream and in portage So, many of us enjoy GNOME’s super-efficient integration with inotify via gamin and hal, which allows nautilus to show file updates in real-time, as well as file browsers automatically opening when a CD is inserted, or usb stick is plugged in, etc. However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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# emerge --digest =gamin-0.0.26.20050510<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n
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\r\n# cd \/usr\/src\/linux\r\n##download the patches\r\n# patch -p1 -R -i 4800_inotify-0.22-3.patch\r\n# patch -p1 -i inotify-0.23-rml-2.6.12-rc3-7.patch\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n
\nNext, insert a cdrom, and make sure that an icon appears for it on the desktop and the computer:\/\/ display is also updated. Use the icon to eject the cdrom, then put it back in again. Check that the icon reappears and computer:\/\/ is also updated again. Feel free to do the same with any USB storage you have to hand.<\/p>\n