Bug#454764: nautilus: also occurs on logout of regular user
Kevin Mitchell
kevmitch at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 23:04:42 UTC 2008
Package: nautilus
Version: 2.20.0-6
Followup-For: Bug #454764
I believe something related occurs on logout of a regular user when all
of usual desktop session daemons (like network manager, power manager,
etc.) are disabled. Such a setup is common for multiuser systems.
It appears that the problem is that nautilus is incessantly writing
~/nautilus-debug-log.txt. I will not attach it as it is 24 MB, however
$ head ~/nautilus-debug-log.txt
===== BEGIN MILESTONES =====
0x1febd20 2008/08/09 17:53:44.4748 (GLog): Failed to initialize libhal context: (null) : (null)
0x1febd20 2008/08/09 17:53:44.4749 (GLog): Could not initialize hal context
0x1febd20 2008/08/09 17:59:43.9922 (GLog): Could not initalize the HAL context: (null)
0x1febd20 2008/08/09 17:59:43.9926 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 11
0x1febd20 2008/08/09 17:59:43.9929 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 11
0x1febd20 2008/08/09 17:59:44.1615 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 11
0x1febd20 2008/08/09 17:59:44.2047 (USER): debug log dumped due to signal 11
.
.
.
The last message appears to repeat indefinitely approximately every
50ms! For me, the most sever symptom of this is that the disk i/o goes
near to maxing out. CPU usage is high, but not 100% and even if it were,
the disk usage is what will render the system near unusuable. It might
be worth adding that I am using an XFS file system for my home
directory.
In my humble opinion, this is a release critical bug and should be
escalated in severity to "important" as it is crippling on a multiuser
system.
There appears to be an ubuntu bug report (which has become a bit of a disaster itself)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/150471
Within that (if you can find it) is a fix by Sebastien Bacher
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12083888/nautilus.debdiff
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12083909/nautilus_2.20.0-0ubuntu7.1_source.changes
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12083923/92_from_svn_no_buggy_signal_handler.patch
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy-updates/nautilus
One very good suggestion for a temporary fix (i.e., until the above is
ported to Debian) is to add "killall nautilus" to
/etc/gdm/PostSession/Default.
Kevin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii desktop-file-utils 0.15-1 Utilities for .desktop files
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.22.2.1-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libeel2-2.20 2.20.0-7 Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii libexempi3 2.0.1-1 library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii libexif12 0.6.16-2.1 library to parse EXIF files
ii libgail-common 1.22.3-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgail18 1.22.3-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.22.3-1 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-4 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnautilus-extension1 2.20.0-6 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii librsvg2-2 2.22.2-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 2.0.65-2 SELinux shared libraries
ii libstartup-notification0 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libtrackerclient0 0.6.6-2 metadata database, indexer and sea
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii nautilus-data 2.20.0-6 data files for nautilus
ii shared-mime-info 0.30-2 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
pn app-install-data <none> (no description available)
ii desktop-base 4.0.7 common files for the Debian Deskto
ii eject 2.1.5+deb1-1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii libgnomevfs2-extra 1:2.22.0-4 GNOME Virtual File System (extra m
ii librsvg2-common 2.22.2-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii nautilus-cd-burner 2.20.0-1 CD Burning front-end for Nautilus
ii synaptic 0.62.1 Graphical package manager
Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii eog 2.22.3-1 Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii evince [pdf-viewer] 2.22.2-2 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
pn fam <none> (no description available)
ii gv [pdf-viewer] 1:3.6.5-2 PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii kghostview [pdf-viewer] 4:3.5.9-2 PostScript viewer for KDE
ii kpdf [pdf-viewer] 4:3.5.9-2 PDF viewer for KDE
pn totem | mp3-decoder <none> (no description available)
pn tracker <none> (no description available)
ii xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer] 3.02-1.3 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
-- no debconf information
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