Nautilus Hangs When You Attempt To Expand A Directory Containing Only Hidden Items

[jimlovell777]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When using list view if I expand a directory that contains only files begging with a period, the folder view hangs until I try something else. At some point later Nautilus will fully crash and quit.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 28 08:24:18 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Martijn_Hoekstra (martijnhoekstra)]

I can confirm (marking as confirmed) and used Ubuntu-Bug PID to get some more stuff the devs might need, which I didn't know how to get without filing a new bug, so the attachments are at bug 650501, which I marked as dupe

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.
If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Martijn_Hoekstra (martijnhoekstra)]

sorry for the misinformation earlier, I couldn't get Nautilus to crash actually, but the screen keeps hanging in the screenshot I'll attach, which is a bug.

Jim, could you make note of this bug if you manage to get a proper crashreport?

[jimlovell777 (jimlovell777)]

Martijn_Hoekstra I'll try. The problem is I don't know the exact steps that prompt a crash, repeatability is an issue. It typically happens if I'm browsing a few folders at a time. If I expand a folder as described above then leave it and start moving files in other windows it sometimes happens. The crash seems to happen more when removable media and secondary mounted partitions are been accessed.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Martijn_Hoekstra (martijnhoekstra)]

This bug is reproducable.

mkdir ~/test
touch test/.test
Open your homedir in nautilus
Switch to list view
uncollapse the test dir
notice that the contents are stuck at loading

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
> 1. Is this reproducible?
> 2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
> This will help us to find and resolve the problem.
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Nautilus Hangs When You Attempt To Expand A Directory Containing Only Hidden Items
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649812
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (650501).
>

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Just tried the steps you provided and it worked fine for me. i.e. if there was nothing in the dir it showed 'Empty' and if any file/folder was in the folder it was shown and I can open it.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

after a wait of more than a minute I did not see the crash only 'Loading' and I reported it as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631352 if anyone can create a crash debug logs would be helpful on the upstream bug report.

[jimlovell777 (jimlovell777)]

The above steps recreated the bug for me. No crashes from it in a while but I haven't been doing as many file operations. If it happens again I'll get all of the info I can.

[jimlovell777 (jimlovell777)]

I would like to add that it would be nice if there were a setting for users like me that optionally displayed "Contains Hidden Files" instead of "Empty". On more than one occasion I've deleted directories falsely assuming they were empty when in reality I had files hidden. My own fault I know but that setting could have saved me the hassle. An few examples being a desktop background (~/.background.png so I don't have to see the file in my home dir), .ssh dir with keys and so on.