#7348 BLOC 8.2.0 (: journal fails to show icon for mounted usb stick

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#7348: journal fails to show icon for mounted usb stick
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   Reporter:  tomeu             |       Owner:  joe                                
       Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                                
   Priority:  blocker           |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)               
  Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:  Git as of bug date                 
 Resolution:                    |    Keywords:  8.2.0:+ blocks:8.2.0 joyride-2120:+
Next_action:  qa signoff        |    Verified:  0                                  
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Comment(by mikus):

 Currently running Joyride 2146 (manually updated with rpms to nearly 2160
 - except my firmware is Q2D16).

 When I insert an USB stick, it quickly shows up as "mounted" (which is
 what I want - I'll access that stick from Terminal).  But after a number
 of minutes, Journal still does  NOT  show the icon for that USB stick.
 [See below for what Journal *does* show.]

 If the USB stick contains few files, my XO continues to run "normally".
 But if the USB stick contains hundreds of files, my XO becomes non-
 responsive -- 'top' now shows a 'python' task taking 85%-95% of the CPU
 cycles ('X' and sundry take the remaining 5% of the CPU cycles).  I could
 not 'umount' (response: "device busy") the many-files USB stick until I
 had manually 'killed' that 'python' task.


 [Note that all-in-all I have six devices accessed via USB on my XO - in
 addition to the "permanent" SD card there is a hard drive, an ethernet
 adapter, a keyboard, a mouse, and the USB stick being tested.]

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 p.s.  What is even stranger is that I keep an USB hard drive on my XO.
 That hard drive has on it my swap partition, plus two ext2 partitions.
 [Both ext2 partitions get "mounted" automatically by the XO -- I access
 them from Terminal.]  *One* of those partitions shows up in Journal as an
 icon (when I click on that icon, Journal shows me the files on that
 partition).  The *other* partition does not have any icon shown for it by
 Journal.  [Journal in recent Joyrides has not shown me the icon for my SD
 card.]

 [[br]]
 Bottom line:  with the "test" USB stick, I have four removable-device
 filesystems mounted (and accessible).  Of those four, one shows up as an
 icon in Journal.

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