Re: Nautilus slow/unresponding/crashing

[Andrea Vai <andrea vai unipv it>]

Hi,
Il giorno mar, 09/10/2018 alle 13.30 +0100, António Fernandes ha
scritto:
> Also, if it crashes, getting a stacktrace from the crash would make
> it possible to understand why it crashes. More instructions for
> getting a stacktrace can me found here: 
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/Bugzilla/GettingTraces
>
> Also, sometimes this is caused by nautilus extensions. The
> PyGIWarning suggests you have a nautilus pyhton extension installed.
> It may be the source of the bug and uninstaling may provide a
> solution.

Many thanks! I tried to start nautilus without any extension and the
problem disappeared. BTW, is there any support here (in the list)
about (some) extensions, or is it demanded to the extension developer
only?

Cheers,
Andrea

> In any case, feel free to file a bug report at 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/new
>
> A terça, 9/10/2018, 13:18, Hashem Nasarat via nautilus-list <
> nautilus-list gnome org> escreveu:
> > Hi Andrea,
> >
> >
> > You could start by making sure all instances of nautilus are
> > killed (`pkill -f nautilus` a few times?)
> > After that you could try and see if there are more useful debug
> > messages by running:
> > `G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all nautilus`
> >
> > and then reproducing the problem once more.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 3:45 AM Andrea Vai <andrea vai unipv it>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >   from time to time (actually, very often in the last days, and
> > > almost
> > > always today) Nautilus hangs and does not respond, and sometimes
> > > crashes, even when I try to do simple actions (open a folder in
> > > a new
> > > tab, copy a file, etc.).
> > >
> > > Now I can almost reproduce the problem: make a copy of a 2 MB
> > > PDF file
> > > in a folder containing less than 20 items takes more than 30
> > > seconds.
> > >
> > > Sometimes, the action is not performed and Nautilus crashes.
> > >
> > > Terminal command "ls -l" in the affected directory runs fine.
> > >
> > > BTW, there are many "affected directories", not just one.
> > >
> > > dmesg shows nothing.
> > >
> > > Running nautilus in a terminal window (in a "crash" case) shows
> > >
> > > $ nautilus
> > > sys:1: PyGIWarning: Nautilus was imported without specifying a
> > > version
> > > first. Use gi.require_version('Nautilus', '3.0') before import
> > > to
> > > ensure that the right version gets loaded.
> > > Gdk-Message: 09:37:53.604: Lost connection to Wayland
> > > compositor.
> > >
> > > Could anybody please help me to debug and solve it?
> > >
> > > Thank you very much,
> > > Andrea
> > >
> > > Running Nautilus 3.28.1-stable in Fedora 28 desktop
> > >
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