I have marked the bug as confirmed since I was able to reproduce it on
three different computers.

** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: mountall
+ Binary package hint: nautilus
  
  What happens:
- 1. In the Gnome panel I click on Places and I see two folders that I have 
mounted in fstab with 
- bind /.../a to /.../b
- bind /.../a to /.../c
- 2. When I click either of these folders I get the following error (with 
different destination path):
- Error
- Unable to mount MyDocuments
- mount: according to mtab, /media/E/MyDocuments is already mounted on 
/home/username/MyDocuments
+ 1. mount a folder a to point b with the -bind option in /etc/fstab, for 
example:
+      /media/data          /home/username/MyDocuments none     
bind,user=username,group=username               0       0
+ 2. reboot and then open nautilus
+ 3. nautilus will show the new mount point in the places sidebar but it will 
give you an error if you click on the mount point:
+     Unable to mount MyDocuments
+     mount: according to mtab, /media/data is already mounted on 
/home/username/MyDocuments
  mount failed
  
  What should happen:
- Since these binds are specified in fstab it should not be necessary to mount 
them at all since they get mounted automatically at boot time. Therefore these 
entries are unneccessary in the Places menu and should be removed.
+ 1. nautilus should not show these binded folders since they are well 
accessible through the filesystem
+ 2. if the mounted folder (e.g. /mount/data) is a block device then it will 
appear in the places sidebar anyway and thus it is not necessary to show the 
mount point again
+ 3. if the mounted folder is a normal folder from an existing file system then 
its accessible both from the original location and the newly binded location, 
thus the is no need to show it in places again
+ 4. this is quite annoying
+ 
+ Additional Information:
+ This bug persists in Lucid
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Oct 15 12:04:11 2009
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
- Package: mountall 0.2.2
- ProcEnviron:
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
- ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
- SourcePackage: mountall
- Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
+ Package: nautilus 2.30

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Gnome Places contains filesystems mounted via bind
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452049
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