Hi everyone,

I have an issue with a Virtualbox shared folder. I'll open a bug report for that, but before I do so, I would like to know, if someone else has the same problem, and by which component it is caused. Candidates are Dolphin, KDE as a whole and Virtualbox.

The issue: Files in sub-folders disappear in Dolphin
All is fine with files, but when I copy a folder with some files in it to the shared folder on my host and then try to open the folder from within a virtualised system with Dolphin, the content of the folder is displqyed for the fraction of a second, but then I am thrown back to the parent directory and the folder disappears leaving no trace. It looks like it had never been there. In most cases I can get the folder back by refreshing the folder display (pressing F5), but not alwqys.

CLI and Thunar work just fine
No such problem on the command line and with Thunar, BTW. Now, this might indicate that Dolphin is the culprit. But it's a virtual guest system, so it might as well be caused by a misconfiguration of Virtualbox.

My setup

Host
Slackware64-14.1
Shared folder: /home/gargamel/vbox_shared
Owned by: gargamel.users
User gargamel is a member of group vboxusers

Virtualbox Guest
Slackware64-current of 4th May, 2015 with KDE 4.14.3
Shared folder: /media/sf_vbox_shared
Owned by: root.vboxsf
User gargamel1 is a member of group vboxsf

I'd appreciate some feedback on this. Do you have similar issues? Is it caused by Dolphin, or is Dolphin just showing a symptom caused by some other component?

Thanks in advance

gargamel

EDIT: No such issue in KDE 5, so I removed the section describing my setup with KDE 5.

I'm not of much use to you I'm afraid, since I only have a shared folder exported from a Windows host to a Crux guest, and KDE is on neither of them. One question which did arise, however, was whether or not exporting a directory in $HOME might be the issue. Does the same thing happen if you export another directory instead, something like /data (with appropriate permissions, of course)?

Thanks, I'll try that on the weekend (no time until then), although I doubt that this is causing the problem, because id doesn't happen with KDE5.

gargamel

I just found that for some reason I don't know not all libraries from the last updates of -current were upgraded in my system. After re-installing and upgrading them everything works just fine.

So I mark this thread as SOLVED:

gargamel