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Theoden

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Registered: 2005-03-03

Posts: 240

The current dbus problems

I have been having problems on my system related to reading samba shares and the most recent dbus and gnome 2.3.0 upgrades/updates.  On my system - nautilus cannot open my samba (smb) shares on my network - yet I can mount them manually in a terminal.

I have spent considerable time reading the forums trying to find a solution and I have discovered others having the same issues.  The messages that I (and others) receive reference dbus as the culprit in not being able to mount these shares.

It didn't take me very long to recognize that the current version of dbus has some serious issues with regard to gnome 2.3.0 and especially nautilus.  My questions are these:

"When can we expect an update of any/all of these apps that will restore usability?"

"Is there any 'official' work-around that actually works in the interim?"

Any useful answers would be appreciated. 

--Theoden

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Theoden

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Registered: 2005-03-03

Posts: 240

Re: The current dbus problems

Hmm - I'm surprised that no one seems to respond to this issue.  It's not like the problem is an isolated case.

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tinhtruong

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 117

Re: The current dbus problems

I have the same problem! Still googling for the solution.

Spacenick

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2010-04-02

Posts: 168

Re: The current dbus problems

I'm bitten by the same bug, however I guess we GNOME users are quite a minority here on Arch. I love to get the newest GNOME and I think breakage is to be expected but I also woner what kind of fix might be on the horizon if at all.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: The current dbus problems

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18908 ?

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xikyu46

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Registered: 2009-10-06

Posts: 9

Re: The current dbus problems

i have same problem too,..  for smbclient, i downgrade to version 3.4. But you have to downgrade gvfs too, It will make more complicated problem . So i make simple script that use smbfs to mount from some directory and show in nautilus. my script just like this

sudo mkdir /mnt/"$1"
sudo mount //"$1"/"$2" /mnt/"$1" -o password
nautilus /mnt/"$1"

and for umount you just use

umount /mnt/*