nautilus hangs when delete large folder(s)

[Tien Nguyen]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Whenever I try to delete (using Shift-Delete) a whole folder(s), Nautilus will delete the content but then hangs. I have to Forced Quit, no other wait around.

It only appears to have this problem with larger folders (having hundreds of files/sub folders). Smaller folder are OK.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 29 13:46:56 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace of the freeze following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Tien Nguyen (tienhn)]

I have not gotten around doing what you asked, but I will. Thanks,

[Tien Nguyen (tienhn)]

Also the behavior is often repeatable (not always but could be recreated), so I will send more info here...

[Abdusamed Ahmed (sir508)]

YES THIS IS HAPPENING TO ME TOO ...and is very annoying for a editor for me!!! plz give a work around!

[Abdusamed Ahmed (sir508)]

Can anyone tell me a solution to fix this? I can't delete anything without freezing nautilus. How do I complete kill nautilus.... it having 'zero files opened'? I don't have the SVG file opened has this thread offers a solution by doing this [url]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=514081[/url]

I basically want to start a completely new 'no files' opened nautilus session.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Could somebod help us with a backtrace ? without that the bug is right now no use, please read the instructions and if you have any questions please ask us, thanks in advance.

[Abdusamed Ahmed (sir508)]

I fixed mine ... I had to manually delete a open file which was a configuration from vineyard which was suppose to be a nautilus extension. Because it was buggy, I delete it using Terminal with 'rm' command. Deleted.. killall nautilus... nautilus back in ACTION!

[Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic)]

As the author of VIneyard, I can confirm that one of the extensions installed caused this behaviour.
I'm of course sorry for the trouble and would like to point out that this is already fixed and that the next version won't have this issue.
For now a simple: sudo rm /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/python/vineyard-configuration-selection.py - will do the trick.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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