[plug] odd file manager hangs

[James Nell]

Hi Craig,

I seem to be experiencing a similar issue. I have found Nautilus would 
freeze up intermettintly while browsing or on launching. It started
happening quite suddenly about 2 weeks ago. I use FC2 and keep it up to
date using YUM configured to down load it's updates off PlanetMirror. I
have been sort of hoping it's just a passing bug, that will be found and
fixed, but the longer I wait, the less hope I have that it will be
miraculously solved in an update.

I haven't been back through my logs to try and narrow things down, but I
am totally up to date with version numbers, including the kernel.

At first I thought it had something to do with Nautilus trying to do
some sort of validation of all it's mount points when launching. I still
haven't ruled this out. I suspect that there has been some sort of patch
applied to Samba that is affecting how Linux does DNS resolution.

This is all just speculation, and if there is any merit in anything that
I have written please let me know. I can't think of a good way of
testing my theory. Any ideas, most welcome.

Cheers,
James.
 




On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 13:46, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:40 am, Mark O'Shea wrote:
> 
> > Have you got any further with this Craig?
> 
> Nope. A kernel upgrade is scheduled for Friday night. Yay.
> 
> > I've been following the 
> > thread but didn't have any more ideas to add.  But it strikes me that
> > you shouldn't really ignore the thumbnail generation idea.  It looks
> > like these graphical filemanagers have different icons for each type of
> > file that it encounters (image, document, text file, script etc) and to
> > find out what type of file it is I assume it must examine the file,  I
> > can change the extension at the end and it still knows what it is (as I
> > would expect).  So for instance my konqueror here can tell the different
> > between a text file and a perl script.  I'm assuming that it looks at
> > the top line to find that out.
> 
> That's reasonable. I haven't seen any evidence yet that it is thumbnailing 
> that's the problem, though. Among other things, the problem directory 
> contains nothing to thumbnail (all application/msword, so the file manager 
> doens't even bother to look).
> 
> A notable exception to this is directories, which nautilus counts the contents 
> of. However, konqueror has the same problem - and it does not count 
> directiory contents.
> 
> I've also just reproduced the problem again - with all thumbnailing disabled. 
> Interestingly, I noticed the freeze when aiming konqueror at the directory, 
> so I quickly launched nautilus and pointed it at the same directory. Nautilus 
> also froze. Both unfroze at _exactly_ the same time. I don't think this is an 
> application issue - it's looking more and more kernel-ish with behaviour like 
> that.
> 
> > Could the filemanagers be having a quick check of all the files in the
> > directory?  And sometimes having trouble doing this?
> 
> Not from what I'm seeing, given the continued problems with FAM and 
> thumbnailing off, plus the simultaneous unfreezing of konq and nautilus just 
> now.
> 
> As a total aside: is it just me, or does Kmail not support IMAP SEARCH? I'm 
> trying out Kontact in KDE 3.3, having had it recommended, and so far - well, 
> kmail has improved but not enough. No speling check - and many people here 
> know how I need that ;-) . No IMAP SEARCH, so I can't make use of Cyrus's 
> squatter indexing. Colour me unimpressed - I'm going back to Evolution. If 
> only Evolution was as easy to build new versions of as Kmail (as part of KDE) 
> is...
> 
> --
> Craig Ringer
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