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nautilus package

nautilus freezes system while creating thumbnails for many svg files

Bug #2364 reported by Peter Jochum
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu GNOME

Bug Description

Nautilus of Gnome 2.12 has problems when creating many svg thunmnails, which can lead to making the machine unresponsive.

I downloaded the OpenClipArt Library (www.openclipart.org). When I browse the files using nautilus, the system becomes pretty unusable when nautilus generates thumbnails in a directory where many .svg files reside. And after a while, it hangs completely (still a lot of hard disk activity). I found this bug in gnome bugzilla which seems related http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316450. but in my case nautilus doesn't crash, but it pretty much freezes the system.

I am using Ubuntu Breezy Preview, so its the 2.12 Nautilus Version.

3 Things:
1. Maybe disable svg preview until this issue is resolved.
2. How many images does nautilus try to thumbnail concurrently.
3. Should I file a gnome-bugzilla-bug as well, or does the bug report here suffice.

See original description
Peter Jochum (peter-jochum)
description: updated
summary: + Nautilus of Gnome 2.12 has problems when creating many svg thunmnails,
+ which can lead to making the machine unresponsive.
Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → gnome
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for the report. Your bug is VERY closely related to #2288 - which was reported to GNOME BTS (the bug you mentioned) - are you ok with marking as a duplicate?

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Peter Jochum (peter-jochum) wrote : its a duplicate

yes.

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