Package: nautilus
Severity: critical
Version: 2.0.8
Synopsis: Nautilus assumes a thread stack size > 64 K
Bugzilla-Product: nautilus
Bugzilla-Component: Thumbnails

Description:
Description of Problem:
When Nautilus is rendering non-JPEG thumbnails it creates a thread that
allocates a 64 K buffer array.  This allocation causes Nautilus to hang
on FreeBSD where the default thread stack size is only 64 K.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Create a PNG screen shot in your home directory
2. Open your home directory in Nautilus
3. 

Actual Results:
Nautilus will hang on FreeBSD.

Expected Results:
Nautilus should render the thumbnail correctly, and not hang.

How often does this happen?
All the time.

Additional Information:
A patch is forthcoming that corrects the problem by calling
pthread_attr_setstacksize() to make sure the thread stack is large
enough.  I did a 128 K stack size, but this is probably overkill.




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-11-29 15:00 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.