Emptying Trash:/// slowed to freeze. Now broken.

[Darin]

I went to Trash (Trash:///), clicked empty. I had at least around 5GBs in there. I confirmed delete, and the operation dialog came up, and said "Preparing". It stayed like this for over a minute. My system slowed to a near freeze. I was able to click Cancel. It took about another minute to respond to the click, but eventually canceled. Everything in the trash was gone. I closed it, and opened it back up. Trash:/// is now so slow it's unusable (almost appears frozen), difficult to close, doesn't allow me to open any other nautilus windows, and it won't show deleted files.

I looked in /home/myname/.local/share/Trash/files, and there was nothing there. I looked in /home/myname/.local/share/Trash/info, and there was a firefox.desktop.trashinfo file. I deleted that, but it didn't help. If I now delete something, it does show up in both of these folders - but not in Trash:///. When I go into either of those folders, my mouse pointer turns into the pointing finger symbol - not sure if this is relevant. Under Trash:///, the Empty button highlights, but files do not show.

If I start nautilus (Trash:///) through the terminal, I get:

(nautilus:6054): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_utf8_collate: assertion `str1 != NULL' failed

This repeats indefinitely as the Trash:/// window instantly slows to a near freeze.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 32Bit. Fully updated (Security and Recommended) up to this point. Please let me know if these is anything more I can try, or anything more I can add that may help. Thanks very much for the time and help.

Update 2008-07-21:

Other users can use their trash fine. Using list view or smaller icons makes the trash slightly more responsive, and displays the icons, but it is still nearly unusable.

Again, thanks for anyones help, and let me know if there is anything I can try, or anything more I can add. Thanks again.

- Darin

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report.
does "gvfs-ls trash:" works correctly? what processus is using ressources when you get the issue?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.