Re: nautilus hangs occasionnaly on a right click

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 21:29 +0200, Patrick Jacquot wrote:
> when right-clicking on a non-selected item, nautilus hangs occasionnally
> That hanging is permanent. When I try to close the window,
> gnome-session complains that nautilus is not responding.
> Often, after forcing nautilus to close, the auto-restart works, but
> sometimes I must restart everything, because closing and restarting the
> session doesn't bring nautilus back properly (no wallpaper, no icons on
> desktop).
> I took the habit of always selecting the item with a left click
> before a right click.
> It seems to work better when I take that precaution, and almost never
> hangs.
> Is that a known bug?
> machine: PIII-600, only 128 MO memory, but 512 MO swap
> distribution: Fedore core 4 (up to date)

It might be reported in bugzilla (although i don't remember seeing it).
If you ever get it to hang, could you attach to nautilus with gdb and
get a backtrace? Ideally you would have debuginfo packages for nautilus,
eel, gtk2 and glib2 when doing this.

See this page for info on backtraces:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces

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