Nemo hangs when PTP is unable to return friendly name

[Mario Olivio Flores]

NOTE: I think this is probably so low priority it may never make sense to fix, but I wanted to document it in case others are stumbling across this and to ensure a web search leads those users somewhere.

Expected behavior: Nemo to open with a USB device connected.

# Actual Behavior

When a specific low-quality, proprietary tablet device is connected to my computer, Nemo rarely opens. Nemo usually times out, but it occasionally opens after a multi-minute delay. Also, disconnecting the low-quality hardware resolves the issue. I'm guessing that Nemo is blocked attempting to fetch the "friendly device name" in the logs below.

# Logs

Doing my best to identify some logging, I typically see these symptoms:

when attempting to launch Nemo from the terminal: `Could not register Nemo as a remote: Timeout was reached`

in Syslog:
```
Nov 12 20:51:43 dell-XPS-15-7590 gvfsd[542176]: Error 2: PTP Layer error 02ff: Error getting friendlyname.
Nov 12 20:51:43 dell-XPS-15-7590 gvfsd[542176]: Error 2: Error 02ff: PTP I/O Error
Nov 12 20:52:47 dell-XPS-15-7590 gvfsd[542176]: PTP: reading event an error 0x01 occurred
```

# Technical Context

Architecture: amd64
Nemo:
  Installed: 4.6.5+ulyana
  Candidate: 4.6.5+ulyana
  Version table:
 *** 4.6.5+ulyana 500
        500 http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages ulyana/backport amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.4.2-2 500
        500 http://artfiles.org/ubuntu.com focal/universe amd64 Packages
Description: Linux Mint 20
Release: 20

[v. p. (v1nce29)]

Same here.
Except I didn't get the text `Could not register Nemo as a remote: Timeout was reached`

Plus nemo grabs the keyboard access for its own exclusive use.
So, for lambda user, it looks like the only solution is to switch off your computer.

ubuntu 18.04
nemo 3.6.5

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Martin Holmes (mholmes)]

I've been seeing this occasional minutes-long hangup behaviour for a couple of years, and it's always puzzled me -- now I know it's because it only happens when my phone happens to be connected over USB. Disconnecting the phone instantly allows Nemo to start.

It would be great to get this fixed. Other users must be as puzzled as I've been, and perhaps concluded that Nemo is unreliable and they should go back to Nautilus.

[Martin Holmes (mholmes)]

Incidentally, my experience was on Ubuntu 22.04.