Comment 3 for bug 1197786

I had exactly same problem on ubuntu 12.10 and flickrfs installed from official repositories. I have solved this issue inserting "time.sleep(0.7)" after line #358 in "/usr/share/pyshared/flickrfs/flickrfs.py" file. I don't know what exactly causes this issue, but it depends on how quickly threads are being created. For example, on my computer 0.5 timeout does not solve the issue.

--- flickrfs.py.orig 2013-08-11 00:06:27.461206731 +0300
+++ flickrfs.py 2013-08-11 02:01:51.981314517 +0300
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@
         curdir = "/sets/" + a['id']
       set_id = a['id']
       background(self.__sync_set_in_background, set_id, curdir)
+ time.sleep(0.7)
     log.info('sync_sets_thread finished')

   def sync_stream_thread(self):