Bug 22616

Description of problem:The entire contents of a file system are invisible to a graphical window.

Details:
Started M6, logged on as user, su root in a terminal, started my various encrypted disks.  As graphical user, went to /mnt/crypt1, only to find it completely empty, 0 files, 657 Gb free of a 10Gb disk.  _All_ my critical stuff was there (last backed up couple of days ago...)

?!  Heart-stopping stuff.

umount /mnt/crypt1
fsck /dev/mapper/cryptvol1 - clean
fsck -f /dev/mapper/cryptvol1 - clean
remounted it.
in a terminal:
ls /mnt/crypt1: shows the files all there.
xfce graphical window looking at /mnt/crypt1: 0 files, 657Gb free.

Explanation:
Over in workspace 4 was a window showing an empty /mnt/crypt1, I guess regenerated from whatever window I had open there when shutting down last time.  It would have repopulated itself with whatever it found in /mnt/crypt1 as it opened - i.e. zero files, as I hadn't yet mounted the encrypted partition on /mnt/crypt1.

The existence of this window showing zero files prevents a later window opened in e.g. workspace1 from displaying the contents which now exist on  /mnt/crypt1 after the encrypted partition is mounted there.

Confirmed, completely reproducible by opening a window in workspace4 on the then-empty /mnt/crypt1 on initial login, then going to workspace1 (or presumably any other window), mounting the encrypted partition, but being unable to see its contents in a window.

Tony


p.s. my encrypted mount command - probably not relevant to the problem:

# cat mountcrypt1
modprobe dm-mod
/usr/local/bin/cryptsetup.sh -c aes -h ripemd160 -y -b `blockdev --getsize /dev/sda1` create cryptvol1 /dev/sda1
mount /dev/mapper/cryptvol1 /mnt/crypt1




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How reproducible:  every time, as above.


Steps to Reproduce:  See above.
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