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nautilus package

  1. Bug #133567
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 133567

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote : Re: [gutsy] long delay in nautilus on first access to vfat drive

I tried emptying the vfat drive completely of all files (including trash), and it still experienced the delay in first opening nautilus.

I tried reformatting the drive using gparted (which incidentally crashed when it went to rescan the drives afterwards, and now my external drives no longer automount), and there is still the delay in first opening nautilus.

The behaviour does seem slightly different from before, though. Now when I mount the drive manually, its light flickers for a while during which gnome-volume-manager and usb-storage consume the most CPU cycles (4-5%). Also during this time, umount reports that the device is busy. gnomevfs-ls still works at normal speed during this time.

When all this finishes, if I run nautilus on the directory, it appears pretty much instantly. So now it seems there is some automated process running when the drive is mounted instead of when nautilus first tries to access it, but nautilus is still freezing waiting for this process to complete.

The only software difference I can see is that hal is now at 0.5.9.1-1ubuntu3 instead of ubuntu2 and nautilus is 1:2.19.90-0ubuntu1 instead of .91-0ubuntu1.

I checked again that this delay isn't happening on my external ext3 drives.