The attached patch, cherry-picked from the git repository, fixes the
problem. The original patch was from the db.py file, but the affected code
is still in configuration.py in the current Debian version.
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Scott Barker sc...@mostlylinux.ca
Linux Consultant http://www.mostlylinux.ca/scott
diff -urbBw hamster-applet-2.30.2/src/hamster/configuration.py
hamster-applet-2.30.2.local1/src/hamster/configuration.py
--- hamster-applet-2.30.2/src/hamster/configuration.py 2010-11-26
09:39:22.000000000 -0700
+++ hamster-applet-2.30.2.local1/src/hamster/configuration.py 2010-11-26
09:35:39.000000000 -0700
@@ -91,7 +91,11 @@
if
gio_file.query_info(gio.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ETAG_VALUE).get_etag() == self.last_etag:
# ours
return
+ elif event == gio.FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_CREATED:
+ # treat case when instead of a move, a remove and create has
been performed
+ self.storage.con = None
+ if event in (gio.FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_CHANGES_DONE_HINT,
gio.FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_CREATED):
logging.info("DB file has been modified externally. Calling
all stations")
self.storage.dispatch_overwrite()
