dropbox extension slows down nautilus

[Ryan Kitty]

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have been using Ubuntu Natty since it was released, and nautilus was running just fine. Today, when I went on my computer, Nautilus is so slow it is unusable. This is the second time this has happened. (the first was while using a Natty Dev version, which prompted me to install the final.) If more information or data is needed, please ask.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 3 18:06:47 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[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.

[André Barmasse (barmassus)]

I encountered the same issue on my older Sony Vaio VGNFS195VP after a fresh installation of Natty Narwhal. For everything I want do on the Desktop, nautilus pushes the CPU of my laptop to 100% for about 3-5 seconds and stalls the whole system (see picture with system monitor). Only after these 3-5 seconds of "nautilus thinking" I can perform the task I wanted to to, be it simply renaming an icon, drawing a selection over some icons, or even moving a single icon around. This is very painfull! I am not able to help any further, but maybe it is just a matter of my old laptops low ressources (Intel Pentium M with 1.60 Mhz, 1 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 6200 Go with 128 MB RAM). Or has it something to do with the transition from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3? By the way, this issue happens either with Unity, Unity-2D or the classic environment and with either the Nvidia driver, the Nouveau 3D accelleration or nothing of them installed. I hope you can fix this issue for the next release ...

[André Barmasse (barmassus)]

One week ago I upgraded my system from natty to oneiric alpha. Since then the gnome desktop speed has improved a litle bit, but is still very slow (with my Pentium M 1.6 Ghz processor). Due to a development bug in oneiric I have to start unity manually, which gives me the oportunity to watch, what happens while doing stuff on the slow gnome deskop. Two critical errors always appear, when opening a window or dragging and moving icons around the desktop:

(nautilus:8509): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_get_object: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_OBJECT (value)' failed

(nautilus:8509): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to underallocate NautilusPathBar's child GtkButton 0x97c0048. Allocation is 24x39, but minimum required size is 27x27.

I hope those errors help a little bit further to make the oneiric desktop again as fast as it was before Natty. There is great work going on right now within oneiric! I am looking forward to an excellent Ubuntu release.

[vdr60 (vittorio-dellarossa)]

I had a similar situation after the 11.04 update. But starting nautilus from terminal as root (gksudo nautilus...) I found these messages:

vittorio@IBMT410UB:/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0$ gksudo nautilus
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Initializing nautilus-dropbox 0.6.7

I removed the dropbox extension and now nautilus regained its original speed.....

I hope it could be helpful to someone.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There has been no activity here or mention of similar issues in years and it's likely resolved, closing but feel free to open a new report if you still have problems in newer versions