[plug] odd file manager hangs

[Craig Ringer]

Mark O'Shea wrote:

> Nope never seen this before.  Don't know what's causing it.  That leaves
> guesses and voodoo (are you up to date with your chicken sacrifices?)

*cluck*
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*squawk**SQUAWK*
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> I don't really use graphical file managers much but does this version of
> nautilus produce thumbnails of the documents/images that they are
> browsing?  That might be causing a problem if two are trying to do that
> at the same time (although it shouldn't).

There are no images in the directory concerned, nor anything else it 
might be thumbnailing. Good thought though.

> Have you replicated this on a local x server (to rule out any networking
> unexpectedness)?

Yes. More info on that to come shortly as I've just got one happening on 
my local display and extracted some more info.

> If you could get some more information like ps and lsof listings that
> might help, as well as how well the network is coping with the traffic
> (although you said the smb clients were working okay during these
> problems).

The main issue there is catching it and getting the info before the hang 
clears up. I've only just managed to do just that. Again, more info coming.

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Craig Ringer