Bug#861989: nautilus: Nautilus freezes/crashes when right clicking and selecting properties for 1 or more files

[Jason Crain]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 12:41:46PM +1000, Luke wrote:
> Method
> ~~~~~~
> 1.) Open up Nautilus
> 2.) Navigate to a folder where you want to find the file size of contents
> 3.) Select the file(s)/folder(s), right hand click
> 4.) Click on the option "Properties" in the menu
> 
> Expected Results
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Properties dialog will appear
> 
> 
> Actual Results
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Nautilus will lock up, will not be able to use it even if I have multiple
> windows opened. Eventually Gnome will inform me that Nautilus has potentially
> crashed.
> Other times, it has taken over a minute to load the properties dialog.
> 
> Notes
> ~~~~~
> Does not happen all the time, about 50% for me. When it does occur Nautilus
> will not open unless I either;
> - Open using root permissions
> - Use command 'pkill nautilus'
> 
> I can replicate this issue on two separate computers running Debian 8.7

I don't see this happening on either jessie or sid.  Does this only
happen under some particular circumstance, like a particular file, a
large directory, a network filesytem, etc?