Public bug reported:
I have a fresh installation of the 12.04 beta running from USB drive (created
with usb-creator and the ISO) on an Acer Aspire One netbook, connecting to my
home network via wifi.
I have a dozen or so albums on a network drive that I previously ripped from CD
to FLACs. I can connect to the smb share okay in nautilus and browse them, and
I have set rhythmbox to use this location (smb://...) for the music library. I
have the "scan for new files" preference enabled.
When I start up rhythmbox it begins scanning the files on the remote drive and
adding them to the library. All is well for a short while, then all of a
sudden it starts showing an Import Error for every file, and I eventually end
up with only a fraction of the music files showing in the library.
It appears that for some reason the SMB connection is dropped; when I switched
back to Nautilus, the tab that was showing one of the album folders has been
closed and the network connection for that share no longer shows in the
sidebar. I didn't see the wifi connection drop & reconnect, and the connection
to another share on the same NAS drive was still showing in Nautilus, so it
looks like it was only this particular share that got unmounted rather than
something more general.
Unfortunately, after reconnecting to the share in nautilus, there's no obvious
way to retry importing the missing files (e.g. a Retry option when
right-clicking on one of the errors or Missing Files?) so I quit and restart
rhythmbox. At which point, exactly the same happens again... If I don't run
rhythmbox, it stays connected to the share and I can browse as long as I like
in nautilus without any problem. But every time I start rhythmbox the
connection dies shortly afterward, during the library scan.
I'm not sure whether the actual problem is with rhythmbox itself, or just that
the level of load produced by the library scan triggers some problem in the SMB
client code.
I had a similar but less severe problem when I originally ripped the CDs
using 12.04 Milestone 1; it usually took a few goes to get right through
each CD, as at some point it would stop with an error having lost the
connection to the share and left a zero-byte file in the folder. After
reconnecting and viewing the folder using Nautilus (to see how far it
had got) I set it going again on the remaining tracks (overwriting the
truncated file) and eventually completed the album. I hadn't observed
the "library scan" problem with the earlier milestone, then again I
hadn't tried starting over with an empty library in the earlier release
either.
** Affects: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: i386 precise
** Tags added: precise
** Tags added: i386
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rhythmbox keeps dropping smb connection to nas device
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