exactly as described in the 'marked as duplicate' bug at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/117830
Step by step:
1. with a term/console open,
possibly some other nautilus windows around as well
additionally you might want to have a system monitor or top running
cd ~/Desktop
mkdir tstbug
cd tstbug
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8721025/very_wide.png
nautilus .
Now, when the new nautilus window opens it stays blank (see
screenshot-verywide) and so do all other nautilus windows. (sometimes
those windows just turn stale and don't get refreshed when others pass
over them)
Additionally symptoms:
- cpu bumps to 100%
Good news:
- one can switch to other windows and continue work there
- patience is honoured: eventually the image/preview gets updated
allright and then the system just responds normally again. However the
time to wait is so long that most people would of have killed nautilus
before that could ever happen)
2. to retrigger one can use nautilus (or the console) to just rename the
image (F2, change to 'newname.png')
Again I see similar 'stale' behaviour.
-> see screenshot-newname (which shows the refresh issue on both
nautilus windows, also notice how the new file-name isn't actually shown
until the long wait has passed)
As mentioned at other places before, this behaviour is getting in the
way the most when browsing directories with lots of images. Even worse
when these images appear to be 'local' but are in fact on remote (but
mounted) disks.
(meaning you can't dissable thumbnail generation for those in the
preferences without dissabling it for all local files as well)
HTH,
-marc=
PS: if needed I can again provide a 'strace' run (see attach to
mentioned dupe). If useful I'll be happy to perform the test in a
specific way to produce maximum useful output.
Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> could you describe how you trigger the bug?
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
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