Bug#801965: nautilus: NFS current directory lost

[Simon John]

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.18.0-2+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

This is quite difficult to explain clearly, hence the naff subject line,
but here goes:

When I navigate to a subdirectory of an NFS share, after a few seconds,
Nautilus climbs back up the directory tree.

For example, I point Nautilus to /mnt/fileserver/1/2/3/4/ and leave the
window open for a minute or so. When I come back to that window it will
be showing /mnt/fileserver/1/2 or maybe even /mnt/fileserver.

The only way I can seem to get Nautilus to stay at a directory level I
want it to, is to use "open in terminal" and open a shell at that level.
For some reason that helps Nautilus "remember" its current directory.

I've seen this behaviour for quite some time - probably since Wheezy. It
happens with NFSv3 and v4, v4.1 and I believe autofs and fstab mounting
procedures. Both client and server are running Debian.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.18.0-1
ii  gvfs                       1.26.1.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.18.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-22
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.2-2
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.2-2
ii  libexempi3                 2.2.2-2+b1
ii  libexif12                  0.6.21-2
ii  libgail-3-0                3.18.2-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.32.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.46.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.46.1-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-12      3.18.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.18.2-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.18.0-2+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.38.0-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.38.0-3
ii  libselinux1                2.3-2+b1
ii  libtracker-sparql-1.0-0    1.6.0-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.2+zdfsg1-4
ii  nautilus-data              3.18.0-2
ii  shared-mime-info           1.5-2

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-sushi                3.18.0-1
ii  gvfs-backends              1.26.1.1-1
ii  librsvg2-common            2.40.11-1

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  brasero                3.12.1-1
ii  eog                    3.18.0-1+b1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]    3.18.0-1
ii  totem                  3.18.1-1+b1
ii  tracker                1.6.0-1
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]      1:2.2.1-dmo11
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]  1:2.2.1-dmo11
ii  xdg-user-dirs          0.15-2

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