Bug#570922: gvfs: launching gparted causes duplicate entries for partitions in nautilus 'Places'

[Hello]

Package: gvfs
Version: 1.4.3-1
Severity: normal

Since a few months, launching gparted causes duplicate entries for partitions in nautilus side panel 'Places'.
I attached a screen capture to the bug report as it would be easy to see the duplicate entries.

This bug is not easy to understand.
I would say though I'm not sure, the bug appeared since gvfs has a new dependency on devicekit-disks.

Regarding dependencies, gparted and devicekit-disks both depend on libparted.
The duplicate partitions appear unmounted and they only exist in gvfs aware applications.
Only partitions within extended partitions are duplicated  (true for my setup [sda5, sda6, sdb5], but for others?).
Stopping 'udevd' instances prevents nautilus from displaying the duplicates  (but that is expected behavior).
More interesting, stopping 'gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor' process also prevents nautilus from duplicating logical partitions.

There is a gnome bug report that looks similar :  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597420  while this same behavior is triggered differently (customising fstab of ubuntu boxes).

Though I'm pretty sure the cause of this bug is not debian specific, I don't know if it's appropriate for a user to open a bug upstream, could you tell me ? 

Thanks for your work,

Alan.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gvfs depends on:
ii  devicekit-disks               009-2      abstraction for enumerating block 
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.28.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgdu0                       2.28.1-2   GObject based Disk Utility Library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0             2.28.2-1   GNOME keyring services library
ii  libudev0                      151-2      libudev shared library
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+2      X11 utilities

Versions of packages gvfs recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  policykit-1-gnome             0.96-1     GNOME authentication agent for Pol

Versions of packages gvfs suggests:
ii  gvfs-backends                 1.4.3-1    userspace virtual filesystem - bac

-- no debconf information


*** fdisk -l :

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8b253313

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7784    62524948+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            7785       20023    98309767+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3           20024       60801   327549285    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5           14802       20023    41945088    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            7785       14801    56363989+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1efe80b3

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               2       31342   251746582+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb2   *       31343       38913    60814057+  83  Linux
/dev/sdb5               2       31075   249601873+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6           31076       31342     2144646   82  Linux swap / Solaris


      
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