GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 726789
Certain file types cause nautilus to become non-responsive when Properties is selected.
Last modified: 2021-05-25 17:58:36 UTC
Created attachment 272513 [details] Collected data Certain file types cause nautilus to become non-responsive when Properties is selected.
I was only trying to set the default file association but never got that far...
Appears to be related to Bug 688784 and possibly 700492.
Problem also exists for OGG and OGV. Pretty much any type of video(/audio) file causes nautilus to hang until killed -- any progress on this?
Outrageous!!! Even a playlist ( a simple text file! ) file with extention '.pls' causes this effect! Why would an ASCII text file cause the Nautilus File Properties dialog to hang forever??? When I was finding this behavior on certain image and video files I figured some combination of non-printable characters was getting mishandled, BUT a SIMPLE alphanumeric flat-file causing failure?!?!? THAT IS WEIRD!!!
Could you please attach some example files? I have tried various video and plain-text files, none of them showed problems with Nautilus 3.14.0.
I was looking for a software update, but "Software Update" says I'm up to date with nautilus 3.10.1... 3.14.0 you say? Is that available for Linux 3.16.4-200.fc20.x86_64 (Fedora 20)? Last time I had a problem I was told my system was obsolete and no further work was being done on it (Fedora 17), but I had received no notice (as if someone "out there" just wanted me to look foolish). I just searched upon "nautilus 3.14.0" and it says "fc22" -- its happened again hasn't it? ...and I was just getting all my setups back after moving from "Beefy Miracle" to "Heisenbug"... So now its "Rawhide", huh? Oops! It says it's obsolete -- nautilus version should now be 3.14.1 in Rawhide... Oh well. At least I reported it way back while it was still relevant...
I'm no expert on the "nitty-gritty" of operating systems -- I have assumed that if the system is "fc22" then the commands must also be "fc22" and vice-verse and that it is a bad idea to attempt to mix-and-match. If I'm wrong about this let me know as it sure would make upgrading easier... Thanx.
On Fedora 20 the last official stable version is 3.10 indeed. Rawhide is the name of the last version in development. I am running 3.14 on fedora 21 (Alpha 1) so I won't tell you to upgrade, as it's not finished yet and it's not recommended for production systems yet. You can check the schedule for the next release at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/21/Schedule. Currently it says 2nd of December as the official release date, but has been postponed twice already. Anyway, my question was if you could attach some example files, as I would test it, but right now the only attached file is one called Nautilus_Collected_data without extension and recognized as an application, so I don't know how to test with that. It would help if you could give me some details on what kind of file that is.
Created attachment 288849 [details] Playlist for movie "Pitch Black" This is an example of a playlist file that makes "nautilus 3.10.1" hang forever when "Properties" is selected. The "Properties" dialog never appears and something like 'pkill nautilus; nautilus [URI] &' is required to return to where you were...
Created attachment 288850 [details] Middle-Earth MusicRadio playlist ...and here's another example of a playlist that makes 'nautilus 3.10.1' hang forever under 'Fedora 20' when one chooses the "Properties" dialog which never materializes...
I hope this information is useful to you as I hope the problem has been fixed not to recur when I upgrade to Fedora 22 and nautilus 3.14.1...
Created attachment 288852 [details] Short AVI file This is an example of another type of file that causes nautilus to hang forever when one "right clicks" it and selects "Properties" -- it as if nautilus just cannot locate its own Properties dialog...
As I reviewed the attachments I didn't see the filenames so I include them here: Pitch Black.pls Middle-earth Network Classic Radio.m3u 101_0126.avi in case the file extensions somehow confuse the issue...
I fail to reproduce the issue with Fedora 25 and Nautilus 3.22. Are you still experiencing it?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to report this to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/ if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment and if this still happens in a recent and supported version. Thanks!