Bug 430333 - nautilus segfault starts using large percentage of cpu
Summary: nautilus segfault starts using large percentage of cpu
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nautilus
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-26 08:57 UTC by Roland Hermans
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.20.0-8.fc8
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-02-26 00:25:05 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
gdb backtrace of running nautilus process (1.95 KB, text/plain)
2008-01-26 08:57 UTC, Roland Hermans
no flags Details
gdb backtrace of another running nautilus process (1.96 KB, text/plain)
2008-01-26 09:02 UTC, Roland Hermans
no flags Details


Links
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GNOME Bugzilla 511218 0 None None None Never

Description Roland Hermans 2008-01-26 08:57:01 UTC
Description of problem:
Since upgrading to Fedora 8 sporadically a nautilus process starts consuming a
lot of CPU time and is continuously writing the line "(USER): debug log dumped
due to signal 11" to the file nautilus-debug-log.txt in the user's home directory.

I'm marking this bug urgent as on our multi-user system a number of these
runaway processes severly impact the system's performance.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nautilus-2.20.0-6.fc8
nautilus-cd-burner-2.20.0-1.fc8
nautilus-debuginfo-2.20.0-6.fc8
nautilus-extensions-2.20.0-6.fc8
nautilus-sendto-0.12-5.fc8

How reproducible:
I don't know why the nautilus processes segfault, but when they do they should
not start using all the available CPU time.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Nautilus process starts consuming a lot of CPU time and is continuously writing
the line "(USER): debug log dumped due to signal 11" to the file
nautilus-debug-log.txt in the user's home directory.

Expected results:
Write a single line to the file nautilus-debug-log.txt and exit.

Additional info:
- Attached backtrace created with gdb.
- The external bug reference contains a number of references to other bug
reports of the same problem on various distributions. According to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/153382 just a few days
ago a fix has been released for Hardy.

Comment 1 Roland Hermans 2008-01-26 08:57:01 UTC
Created attachment 293043 [details]
gdb backtrace of running nautilus process

Comment 2 Roland Hermans 2008-01-26 09:02:23 UTC
Created attachment 293044 [details]
gdb backtrace of another running nautilus process

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-02-21 15:14:00 UTC
nautilus-2.20.0-8.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 5 Roland Hermans 2008-02-21 22:09:03 UTC
Thanks for the new nautilus packages. Today I installed them on the system
having showing this problem and for the coming week I'll see what effect it has.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-02-26 00:25:03 UTC
nautilus-2.20.0-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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