Can't rename files in nautilus

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=155732 covers this problem, too.
For me it seems entirely random whether you can rename or not, but I haven't
really conducted any scientific tests to find a pattern. It seems to happen
most often on my large (350GB+) reiserfs partition, but that could simply be
because I don't rename things in other partitions as often.

do you use the icon or the list mode? are you downloading some when you get this
issue?

(In reply to comment #2)
> do you use the icon or the list mode? are you downloading some when you get this
> issue?

The problem occurs only in list mode, if I switch to icon mode it works fine.
For me it's consistent on that partition, it happens whether I download or not.
I can never rename in list mode on that particular partition.

At least for me, it appears that the problem only appears in list view when
you're renaming something under a directory under /mnt. For example, I can
rename things in my home directory without incident, but not in /mnt/data. If I
create a symlink from my home directory to /mnt/data and use that (so the path
in Nautilus' location bar is /home/username/data) I can rename files. However,
being located under the user's home directory isn't the only way to rename
files. I have a symlink going from /usr/local/games to a subdirectory on
/mnt/data and that, too, works fine.

I also tried symlinking into /mnt from both root and my home directory. Both
worked! I hadn't tried that before.

I notice thath the problem appear also with a symlink in home to the /mnt/data
when in the partition mounted there are some process that write to a file.
IMHO it appear related to some write activities in the partition.

I can also reproduce this bug consistently in hoary. The only strange thing I am
doing is using a 2.6.13 kernel rolled by me. Maybe we all have that in common?

do you still have this issue?

Because of this:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16495

I can't actually open the volume to try this. If I go to /media/VolumeName I can
rename stuff there just fine.

I wonder, can anybody reproduce this with Dapper? I can't.

I certainly can't reproduce this with the latest version of Nautilus on Dapper.

Since there has been no response to Sebastien's request for info for over 4 months, I am closing this bug as "Rejected". Should any of the original reporters (or anyone else) still have this issue with the latest version of Nautilus in Dapper, please reopen this bug, providing instructions to reproduce.

Thanks a lot for reporting this bug. Good day.