Comment 14 for bug 218230

I'm experiencing the same problem. Ubuntu 8.04 desktop, 64-bit version. We are using NIS, Winbind, and NFS shares for home directories. Home directories are automounted (autofs).

First:
  $ pwd
  /home/villek
  $ wget http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/examples/filechooser.py
  $ strace -tt -T -o /tmp/trace python filechooser.py

Then:
  $ perl -ne '/<(\d+\.\d+)>/ && print "$1 $_"' /tmp/trace | sort -n | tail -2
  3.987531 12:23:35.026965 open("/home/.hidden", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) <3.987531>
  125.049059 12:23:39.016066 open("/home/.hidden", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) <125.049059>

After about 125 seconds the window opens, but it does not list anything (only the Open and Cancel buttons are visible), and the window does not redraw itself (i.e. minimizing and maximizing produces a blank window).

The home directory is mounted from the server.

  $ mount | grep home
  automount(pid6125) on /home type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=6125,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
  skippy:/vol/home/villek on /home/villek type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,hard,intr,udp,addr=192.168.8.3

Removing tracker did not solve the issue for me.