Bug#956009: gvfs: Nautilus not mounting filesystems in /run/user/1000/gvfs

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 at 11:45:07 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> Since a recent upgrade to bullseye from stretch

Skipping a version when upgrading is not supported. Each version of Debian
represents about 2 years of development, and an upgrade path that applies
4 years of changes in a single transaction (and in particular ends up
running user-space processes on a kernel 4 years older than the one they
were tested with) is not something we can rely on.

If you have other Debian 9 'stretch' systems, please upgrade them to
Debian 10 'buster' and reboot, before attempting to upgrade to bullseye
(which is going to be Debian 11 when it gets released).

> navigating to a remote
> Samba directory via Nautilus or running "gio mount smb://server/share"
> no longer creates a mount point in /run/user/1000/gvfs.

Do you have gvfs-fuse installed? That's the package that is responsible for
mounting these FUSE filesystems in Debian. Perhaps it should be a
Recommends or Suggests; we should certainly set up the reportbug metadata
so that when you report gvfs bugs, the presence or absence of gvfs-fuse is
part of the bug report.

> I didn't find a Debian glib package. The closest I found was
> glib-networking:amd64, 2.64.1-1.

The source package for GLib in Debian is glib2.0, and the actual shared
library is in the libglib2.0-0 binary package. You have version 2.64.1-1,
according to reportbug.

    smcv