On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:20 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running rhythmbox on an AMD64 ubuntu 7.10 system. I'm also using > the coda network filesystem. The two don't get along. > > Coda is a network filesystem that supports disconnected operation. > It is like AFS, except that you may continue to do operations on > the filesystem if your computer is off the net (e.g., using your > notebook on an airplane). After you reconnect, the coda client resyncs > to the server. You typically mount the coda fs on /coda. > > If I have rhythmbox running, as soon at I start up coda, it greys out, puts
What does "greys out" mean? > > "coda" under the "devices" heading in the left pane, and then... goes away. > Strace shows that it is wandering over the coda filesystem, very laboriously > and slowly. My cpu meter pegs at 100% for the roughly hour or so that it takes > rhythmbox to crawl my 2.5 Gb filesystem (which seems like a long time to cover > a couple of thousand files, *none* of which end in .flac or .mp3 or are > otherwise recognisably music files). After that, the cpu meter reverts back to > normal, but rhythmbox continues to stay catatonic. > > Now, the first thing I can't figure out is why rhythmbox is exploring /coda in > the first place. What is giving rhythmbox license to just go chasing down some > random part of my computer's file tree? From the fact that "coda" appears > under "devices," it appears that rhythmbox believes, for some reason, that my > /coda mount is a device, e.g., like an ipod mount. But why? Probably because it looks like an ipod, or some other digital audio player device. > > To discard some possibilities for the lossage: > - that I have *no* plugins turned on. Unless you've gone through gconf and disabled everything under /apps/rhythmbox/plugins/, you still have some plugins enabled. In particular, the generic audio player plugin, which is probably deciding that your coda filesystem looks like a device it supports. Running 'rhythmbox -D generic' in a terminal might provide some useful information. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
