Tumbler keeps file-handles open, can't unmount usb disk after using Thunar

Jannis Pohlmann jannis at xfce.org
Tue Dec 6 02:10:21 CET 2011


On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 01:54:37 +0100
Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For the last few days I experience problems using Thunar for
> organizing my video collection on an external usb disk.
> Once I used Thunar to just open a few directories, the external disk
> can no longer be unmounted, because some file handles are kept open.
> 
> Further investigation showed Tumbler (0.1.22-4 is installed) is the
> culprit, terminating it releases the file handles:
> tumblerd  4221           ce    9r      REG      253,1 364991310
> 7602205 /media/98376608-5882-4bd9-9ded-8e82691c52d8/Serien/somevideofile.avi
> avidemux0 4221 4237      ce    9r      REG      253,1 364991310
> 7602205 /media/98376608-5882-4bd9-9ded-8e82691c52d8/Serien/somevideofile.avi
> multiqueu 4221 4238      ce    9r      REG      253,1 364991310
> 7602205 /media/98376608-5882-4bd9-9ded-8e82691c52d8/Serien/somevideofile.avi
> 
> pstack shows Tumbler is stuck somewhere within gstreamer:
> http://pastebin.com/Jqw5JFEv
> 
> I've filed a bug 8208 a few days ago, but for now haven't got a
> response. Any idea whats going wong here?

I'll try to have a look the next days. Did you try the latest tumbler
release (1.1.23)?

  - Jannis


More information about the Xfce mailing list