From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: (apologies if this is mis-filed. gnome-search-tool doesn't appear anywhere in bugzilla) I recently had an issue with corrupted user accounts and I decided to try a "search and destroy" of my entire disk to find and kill any remnants of a broken account. As an experiment, I tried using the desktop search tool. Knowing that many of my files were root-only I launched the search tool from sudo. Then I did a big content search. Well, my server is still new and there aren't *that* many file on it. But 30 minutes later it acts like it's still searching. I am pretty sure it's just hung. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. from terminal, sudo gnome-search-tool 2. leave filename entry blank 3. change search path to "/" 4. show more options 5. add an option "contains the text" 6. enter search string you know will exist (e.g. your username will appear in a few /etc/ files) 7. click "find" Actual Results: 30 minutes later it was still searching and not a single hit Expected Results: (a) slow but steady trickle of "hits" (e.g. from /etc/ files) (b) completion sooner than this (c) if it really is this slow, how about a progress bar? Additional info:
It seem to work fine in rawhide.
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Confirmed, seems to work fine in FC3/latest. gnome-desktop-2.8.0-3
Okay closing.