Rhythmbox and autofs - is this a bug?

[Jeff Moyer]

"Camilo Mesias" <camilo at mesias.co.uk> writes:

> 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?

The bottom line is that the fact that the files live on an
automount-managed mount point should be transparent to the application.
Please file a bug against autofs for this.

Thanks!

Jeff