2010/2/2 Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com>: > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 21:45 +0100, Sense Hofstede wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm sending this mail to inform about the possible causes of a bug >> report we received on Launchpad in Ubuntu. This bug -- >> <https://launchpad.net/bugs/492655> -- is about the File Operations >> dialogue being blank. (More reports in forum threads [1][2].) >> >> Someone suggested that this could be caused that Nautilus uses stat() >> on large files as well, whereas files larger than 2 GB should be >> checked with stat64(). So far no user has responded, but I was >> wondering, can this indeed make the File operations dialogue go blank? > > We do already use stat64, but that can't make a dialog go blank. From > the screenshot it looks like nautilus is blocking the main thread on > something so its not repainting the UI. The best way to debug something > like that is to get a backtrace from nautilus (with debug info) at the > time this is happening. > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc > al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com > He's an all-American albino cat burglar who dotes on his loving old ma. She's > an orphaned streetsmart nun trying to make a difference in a man's world. They > fight crime! > >
Thank you for your reply. I'll ask the reporter(s) for a backtrace. Regards, -- Sense Hofstede [ˈsɛn.sə ˈɦɔf.steːdə] -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list