Bug#298293: nautilus: Inaccurate file size reported in "Properties"

[Luis Mondesi]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.8.2-2
Severity: normal

Selecting a number of directories and using Properties (ALT+Return) to
display the size of the selected directories, yields different totals if
you do it more than once (this is while under spatial Nautilus).

Reproducing the bug is very simple:
1. open a directory with lots of directories
2. select 5 or so
3. hit ALT+Return
4. close the properties window
5. re-do hit ALT+Return

Do that a few times and you will get all kinds of totals.

The same thing happens for gnome-vfs apps (like nautilus-cd-burner).
Select a bunch of items in that and it will give you random file sizes.
It's hard to know what number is accurate.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-fbs-1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  capplets                 1:2.8.1-4       configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-utils       0.9-1           Utilities for .desktop files
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-5         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                2.8.2-1         Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]   0.2.35-2        Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libexif10                0.6.9-4         The EXIF library allows you to par
ii  libgail-common           1.8.2-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                1.8.2-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.2-1       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2       2.8.1-2         Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.0-6         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.0-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.3-11        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.2-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus2-2           2.8.2-2         libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.10.5-0.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.0-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2               2.8.1-2         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0 0.8-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                  2.6.16-3        GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data            2.8.2-2         data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info         0.15-1          FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

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