gvfsd-smb hangs and needs to be killed

[Shock]

While copying/reading files from a smb share mounted using gvfsd-smb it stalles and never recovers until I kill the gvfsd-smb process.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gvfs-backends 1.14.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 15 17:16:11 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-20 (178 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gvfs
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-17 (29 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stéphane Gourichon (stephane-gourichon-lpad)]

I'm questioning the duplicate status of this bug.

I experienced exactly the symptoms described in the present bug-report #1079246, that is reading from a gvfs-mounted directory. Whatever the way to read (nautilus or other, even ls) all hang the same way until I kill the process. Hang occurs even when copying from a small share a directory containing for a handful of small files, even without subdirectory, for a total of 1Mb (not tested for other cases).

On the other hand, bug-report #1075923 describes "nautilus" copying "large directories", "a few GB".

These two bugs describe different conditions.

I see two policies here :
* we claim that it's the same bug, confirm that #1079246 is a duplicate, and adjust title of #1075923 to widen its scope and include scope of #1079246
* we claim that these are different bugs and suppress duplicate status.

Regards,