Comment 33 for bug 223912

Hi,
I have the same problem here I believe : greyed out nautilus windows + 100% CPU during 1-2 minutes.
If I kill nautilus during this time, then nautilus freezes forever next time I reopen the folder.

This started happening just after I added icons to folders in my Images directory.

Steps to reproduce :
One folder Images
Some sub-folders in Images
Navigate to one of these sub-folders
Drag and drop an image from a sub folder to the Information panel on the left
-> very fast
Navigate to parent folder, then another sub-folder
-> This takes a very long time with 100% CPU (1-2 minutes)
Navigate to parent folder
-> Again this takes a few minutes with window greyed out
Navigate anywhere
-> very fast
Go to another sub folder of Images and add a new icon to the sub-folder
-> Again 100% CPU during a long time
Kill nautilus while it is greyed out
Nautilus restarts
Navigate back to the sub folder containing the new icon folder (Images)
-> Nautilus greys out, taking 100% CPU forever
Kill nautilus, reopen, navigate back
-> Nautilus greys out, taking 100% CPU forever
Kill nautilus set an image as icon to another completely different directory
-> takes 1-2 minutes
Navigate back to the folder which made nautilus crash previously
-> takes 1-2 minutes but now it doen't freeze completely anymore
Navigate anywhere, close/reopen nautilus
-> very fast

So if I kill nautlius during the long freeze after adding an icon, navigating back to the folder after reopening nautilus freezes nautilus.
But if I add a new icon to another directory and let nautilus work during the few minutes, then the problematic folder opens fine next time i reopen nautilus.
So my workaround is just to never kill nautilus, even if it seems to be frozen after setting an image as folder icon..

Hope this helps,
Laurent

System : Ubuntu 8.04 with nautilus 1:22.2.5.1-0ubuntu1 (hardy proposed)