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

[Alexander Dorokhine]

Hey, everyone;

Any news? Is libglib the right place for this bug or should it be
reassigned to gvfs? What should I be doing next?

Thanks,
Alexander

On 13 April 2010 13:31, Alexander Dorokhine <arrenlex at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>