Comment 56 for bug 164120

In Ubuntu 12.04, after installing autofs and setting up nfs autofs mounts, my nautilus temporarily hangs (window greys, freezes, becomes unresponsive) when navigating local directories, if the server exporting the autofs nfs mounts is offline. This is observed even when navigating local directories that do not contain any of the autofs mount points, i.e. navigating somewhere under /home, with autofs nfs mount points that are somewhere under /var. Although the hang is temporary, it's a looooong temporary. I noticed a previous comment suggesting that using separate threads could fix this problem in nautilus, even if the problem could technically be attributed to nfs or autofs. Sounds sensible.