Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 102850
Nautilus Hangs when Opening Automounted /home
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:57 EST
Description of problem: Nautilus appears to cause massive automounting on some automounted /home directories. Not all automounts succeed, so nautilus freezes. Problem is inconsistent (maybe a background thread that's looking at $CWD/..?). Never noticed this particular issue with previous versions of Nautilus. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.2.4-4.E How reproducible: Somewhat (I don't get it every time) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use automounter to mount /home. 2. Have some /home mounts unmountable. 3. Browse /home or /home/user Actual results: Nautilus hangs. Throbber keeps going, but the window itself is unresponsive. Expected results: Nautilus probably shouldn't be causing such massive am activity, and should probably multithread to avoid deadlocks. Additional info:
Strange. browsing /home/user shouldn't do anything like that. /home is a bit different though, nautilus does a filecount on directories it is showing. However, there is some code to handle automounted directories i think.
If you strace this, does it try to read /home/.hidden all the time?
No comments from reporter, no other similar bugreports. Closing.