Bug#577470: libglib2.0-0: glib 2.22.4-1 causes gtk file picker to take 15-30 seconds to appear

[Alexander Dorokhine]

On 13/04/2010, Julian Andres Klode <jak at debian.org> wrote:
> 2.21.5-1
> 2.21.4-1
> 2.20.5-1

Hey.

I noticed that restarting dbus (sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart) allowed
me to get back to the state where the file picker will hang. This
allowed me to test much faster.

So here is an interesting development. While testing one of the
versions, I noticed that when I ran the filepicker, I got the
following error message:

(qalculate:4825): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking
IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name
org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildSignaled: Process
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor received signal 6


I looked up that file and determined that it's in the 'gvfs' package.
Clearly, my downgraded glib was too old for my shiny new gvfs, so this
caused problems. I downgraded gvfs. Surprise! The problem went away.
With an old version of gvfs, it works for ALL GLIBS, even the newest
(2.24).

I tested gvfs and determined that gvfs 1.4.0-2 is the last good
version, and 1.4.0-2+gdu1 is the first bad version.

The new version of gvfs works fine only for older glibs, and the old
version of gvfs works fine for all glibs.

Weird, huh? What's gdu?

So what's my next step?

Thanks,
Alexander