nautilus hangs on preview of SVG with embedded TIF

[Andy Pascall]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Release: Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64

Nautilus version: 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2

Nautilus hangs when generating a preview for SVG files that contain embedded TIFs with an absolute path.

To reproduce:
1. edit line 17 of the attached SVG to point to the absolute path of the included TIF.
2. browse to the folder containing the SVG in nautilus with previews turned on.
3. Try to open another window like places->home.
4. Nautilus has hung.

Workaround:
Turn off file previews: Edit->Preferences->Preview->Show thumbnails->never

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

reassigning to librsvg.

[James McGuire (jimmi-mcg)]

Hi, I also have same issue running Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 64bit

Nautilus becomes unresponsive when navigating to a folder containing SVG's - I also believe they have embedded TIF images.
A workaround is to set "Preview Thumbnails" to "Never" in the preferences, however obviously not acceptable.

Please find a gdb backtrace attached:
Process while running backtrace: run a new instance of nautilus after previously becoming unresponsive and killed, navigating to problem folder containing SVG's, watching nautilus again become unresponsive and sending SIGINT via gdb in console (ctrl C)

I think (and hope) I have all or enough debugging symbols installed.

Let me know if anything further is required.

[nico (romano-nicola)]

I can confirm this bug is also present on Fedora FC12, kernel 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE , libtiff-3.9.2-3, librsvg2-2.26.0-3

PS: The workaround is just silly, I do want file previews, but I also want to be able to navigate folders with .svg files in them.
Unless there is some way to specifically avoid preview of svg files, that is

[Matthew Newton (matthew-ubuntu)]

I have this problem too (fully up-to-date Lucid 10.04), although it doesn't matter whether the TIFF file has an absolute or a relative path in the SVG.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a TIFF: $ import test.tiff
2. Open Inkscape, drag the new test.tiff in.
3. Save as SVG.
4. Browse to the containing folder with Nautilus, or $ eog test-svg-file

The SVG can be modified to make the TIFF file path absolute, and the issue still occurs. Does not happen with, say, JPEG files.

I use a lot of TIFF files in SVG, and this bug has been around quite a while now (not sure when it started, as Nautilus used to crash because of gradients in SVG files, so the cause is now different but the effect is the same!)

librsvg2-2 2.26.3-0ubuntu1

[Ian Lynch (ian-lynch-theingots)]

Its not just Tiffs. I have a file with no tiffs in it that does it. These are .pngs but the version without embedding does it too so I'm not even convinced that embedding is relevant.

Duplicate of bug #305546?

[Michele Pittoni (mpitt79)]

Happened to me also. Disabling thumbnails is a workaround.
I resolved the situation by converting the .tif in a .png with Gimp and editing the .svg file in Inkscape to embed the .png.
Not sure if the type of file is the only thing that matters, I wonder if size has an importance. (Tif was 392KiB, Png 121KiB).

[Cacophrene (cacophrene)]

This long-standing bug is still not solved in the latest Ubuntu release (oneiric) and this is really annoying. Nautilus still constantly crashes when trying to display SVG previews which contain TIFF files with absolute paths.