GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 350084
preview causes NFS problems
Last modified: 2011-08-10 12:10:15 UTC
Steps to reproduce: I've got a Linkstation 2 MIPS NAS system where I installed the nfs-kernel-server from Debian on. When I use Nautilus to browse a folder containing images and enable that previews should be generated, I'm getting A LOT of messages like this on my client: Aug 5 19:11:38 knospe kernel: [17183296.172000] nfs: server hd not responding, timed out "knospe" is the name of my client; "hd" is the name of the NFS server. When I use tar on the shell, I can read as much as I want. I'm using nautilus 2.14.3-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu Dapper. Stack trace: Other information:
I also reported this issue to Ubuntu on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/55332
I do not see how nautilus can be responsible for kernel log messages. rather looks like some nfs problem to me that is being triggered by gnome-vfs does tis oonly happen when preview is enabled?
Uhm, no, nautilus is not *directly* responsible for kernel log messages. That's of course correct ;) BUT: When I enable preview and open a NFS folder with images, the "NFS client" crashs and *this* causes the kernel log messages. But it ONLY crashs, when I use Nautilus to browse a folder with images. When I create a tar of everything, NFS access works just fine. Because of that, I don't think that the NFS client is broken or that the NFS server is broken. You might be right, that the real culprit is some library like gnome-vfs - this, I, as a user, don't know and, pardon me, don't care about. ;) I only get those NFS problems, when I enable preview. When preview is disabled (or set to "local only"), I can browse image folders all day long.
ok if the preview is causing this then some preview component must be the culprit.
Do you still have this problem with an up to date version of nautilus?
Is this still an issue in a recent Nautilus version, such as 2.32 or 3.0, or can this be closed as OBSOLETE nowadays?
Can't reproduce it anymore, because my setup has totally changed - for instance, I no longer have or use this Linkstation NFS server.
Thanks for the quick answer. Was asking because gnome-vfs was replaced by gio/gvfs around 2.24 and stuff was completely rewritten. I'm closing this as OBSOLETE as it probably/hopefully doesn't happen anymore with a completely new backend codebase.