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
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26198 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26198
I just had the chance to test this with Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) which runs gnome
2.20.0 (build date 09/17/2007)
The problem described here persists.
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Nautilus becomes unresponsive when generating thumbnail for
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26198 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26198
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 26198
Nautilus Thumbnail creation freeze system
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Nautilus becomes unresponsive when generating thumbnail for a very wide PNG
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/
Searching around further I think the following known issues are
related/duplicates to the behaviour I see:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104224
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/26198
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165344
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu
As suggested on the http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash, I've
used 'strace' to generate the log in attach.
Procedure I followed:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ mv very-wide.png big.png
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ pidof nautilus
9076
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ nautilus . ;
I've just tested the very-wide png on my system. (Feisty)
It doesn't really 'hang' but rather takes full CPU for quite some time (3
minutes over here, I guess depending on specs YMMV)
During that time none of the 'nautilus-managed-windows' are being updated (so
it surely feels like system locks
