This surprises me, because I am under 12.04 and do see this bug, its actually present since several years.
The problem lies in the code of glib. Nautilus actually has some code in place to differentiate between bind mounted mount points and other mount points. But glib (gio) is not properly handling this case, so the check in nautilus is never reached. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to glib2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452049 Title: Gnome Places contains filesystems mounted via bind Status in The "G" Library - GLib: Confirmed Status in Nautilus: New Status in “glib2.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus What happens: 1. mount a folder a to point b with the -bind option in /etc/fstab, for example: /media/data /home/username/MyDocuments none bind,user=username,group=username 0 0 2. reboot and then open nautilus 3. nautilus will show the new mount point in the places sidebar but it will give you an error if you click on the mount point: Unable to mount MyDocuments mount: according to mtab, /media/data is already mounted on /home/username/MyDocuments mount failed What should happen: 1. nautilus should not show these binded folders since they are well accessible through the filesystem 2. if the mounted folder (e.g. /mount/data) is a block device then it will appear in the places sidebar anyway and thus it is not necessary to show the mount point again 3. if the mounted folder is a normal folder from an existing file system then its accessible both from the original location and the newly binded location, thus the is no need to show it in places again 4. this is quite annoying Additional Information: This bug persists in Lucid ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 15 12:04:11 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: nautilus 2.30 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glib/+bug/452049/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
