Rhythmbox and autofs - is this a bug?

[Andrew Farris]

Camilo Mesias wrote:
> I'm sharing music files from a F8 box using nfs4 and autofs on the F8
> client. It seemed to work well at first, then I realised the mount was
> timing out and Rhythmbox was 'losing' the files. I thought to work
> around this with a wrapper script that does
> 
> cd /server/MUSIC
> rhythmbox
> 
> I launch the script instead of rhythmbox directly.
> 
> By chdir into the served directory I hoped to keep the files visible,
> but it seems that they are still lost from Rhythmbox sometimes.
> 
> So, am I doing the right thing, or could rhythmbox do more to work
> with autofs mounts? Should I be serving up the files differently?
> 
> -Cam

I don't have an answer for you, but is rhythmbox losing access to the files 
while it is reading them or just after some time of being idle?

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