Bug#683394: nautilus: Thumbnails are created, but not displayed (nautilus loops over non-existing files in "~/.thumbnails/fail", causes also high CPU usage)

[Julien Leproust]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:58:49AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> You must have some components of GNOME 3.6 to exhibit this behavior.
> Nautilus 3.4 only uses ~/.thumbnails.
> 
> I don’t know about nemo, but if it is not kept in sync with gvfs, it’s
> looking for trouble.

Nemo is nautilus' clone by the cinnamon project. Packages have been submitted
to unstable recently. I have installed both gnome 3.4 and cinnamon 1.6.7. I
checked, I don't have a single gnome 3.6 package.

I logged in using a brand new user in a gnome classic session, I launched
nautilus 3.4.2 with strace, and observed it trying to fetch thumbnails from
~/.cache/thumbnails, and creating them to ~/.thumbnails/normal.
~/.cache/thumbnails doesn't even exist.

Could some package from cinnamon change or overwrite some gnome configuration
parameter?

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Julien Leproust