This still occurs on Ubuntu 13.10. It's really, really, really annoying.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to hicolor-icon-theme in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1222291 Title: Excessive disk thrashing on triggering gtk-update-icon-cache Status in “hicolor-icon-theme” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Platform: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Version Information: Installed: 0.12-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 0.12-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 0.12-1ubuntu2 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages Expected Behavior: No system freeze on updating the icon cache Actual Behavior: Inconvenient system hangs whenever an application updates the icon cache through e.g. updates. Extended Description: Any time an application is updated, or added, which uses icons stored in /usr/share/icons/hicolor, dpkg updated the icon cache through the triggering process. The command being run is gtk-update-icon-cache --force, which according to the manual rebuilds the entire icon cache. Whenever this command is run, a slowdown of the entire system occurs, and does not relent until the cache is rebuilt. Instead, run it with --validate. A patch (in diff format) is attached which is intended to replace the package maintainer's script in debian/postinstall. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: hicolor-icon-theme 0.12-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Sep 7 19:59:06 2013 Dependencies: EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: hicolor-icon-theme UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-14 (481 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hicolor-icon-theme/+bug/1222291/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
