GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 690981
nautilus occupy 100 percent of the CPU as the Ubuntu box starts
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:15:38 UTC
nautilus occupy 100 percent of the CPU as the Ubuntu box starts, and the load average is high. I can kill it with 'pkill nautilus', then the load average down to normal. Reinstall the Ubuntu box, and the problem still exist. /***Linux UbuntuBox 3.2.0-35-generic-pae #55-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 18:04:39 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux***/ /***GNOME nautilus 3.4.2***/
Is Nautilus itself responsive while this happens? A backtrace or a strace log would be helpful to identify the cause. If you're using Nautilus extensions, you can also try to move them away from /usr/lib64/nautilus/extensions-3.0 and see if that solves the hang.
Restart the Ubuntu box, click on the home folder, an EMPTY window is opened after server seconds. The window can be minimized/maximized/restore, but clicking on the close mark will lead to a not respond message to be showed. I'm not sure which log is helpful and how to collect it. May be you can show me which file is needed and which command to execute. /**************************************************************************** ls -lh /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/ total 456K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34K Apr 11 2012 libdeja-dup.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14K Sep 11 03:32 libevince-properties-page.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34K Nov 21 03:22 libnautilus-brasero-extension.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14K Apr 17 2012 libnautilus-fileroller.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.5K Mar 24 2012 libnautilus-gdu.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.5K Oct 19 07:14 libnautilus-sendto.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42K Dec 12 2011 libnautilus-share.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63K May 23 2012 libnautilus-ubuntuone.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 219K Aug 24 01:51 libtotem-properties-page.so *****************************************************************************/
renamed ../nautilus/extensions-3.0/ to ../nautilus/extensions-3.0-bak/ and then reboot, the problem still exist.
See https://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Strace for some information on how to further debug this with gdb and/or strace. Are you using icons on your desktop? It could also be that one image file on your desktop or home directory repeatedly fails to thumbnail in a loop, causing the program to hang.
Created attachment 232605 [details] strace log with already running nautilus
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 which use unity. ls -lh total 952K drwxr-xr-x 2 lxia lxia 4.0K Dec 28 21:42 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 4 lxia lxia 4.0K Dec 27 20:44 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 lxia lxia 4.0K Dec 29 13:03 Downloads -rw-r--r-- 1 lxia lxia 8.3K Nov 9 18:53 examples.desktop drwxr-xr-x 2 lxia lxia 4.0K Dec 30 14:03 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 lxia lxia 4.0K Nov 9 19:07 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 lxia lxia 4.0K Jan 2 11:54 Public -rw-rw-r-- 1 lxia lxia 903K Jan 3 12:05 strace-nautilus.log.gz drwxr-xr-x 4 lxia lxia 4.0K Nov 12 21:17 Templates drwxrwxr-x 2 lxia lxia 4.0K Nov 10 14:02 Ubuntu One drwxr-xr-x 2 lxia lxia 4.0K Dec 16 11:10 Videos ls -lh Desktop/ total 4.0K -rw------- 1 lxia lxia 372 Dec 16 23:01 website.txt
What I experience on Archlinux with Gnome-shell 3.8 is a nautilus process without any window visible takes 100% CPU occasionally. I don' t know if it's this bug. See this bug:https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1069843.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.