Bah. I've seen random freeze when opening specific directories, but only
with specific content (?), not eg. system directory. I had one directory
with video files, and when I opened any subdirectory therein, Nautilus
froze. First it took up something like 1G of memory for a second or two,
then I got the compiz fade effect and needed to kill nautilus. This
happened every time in spatial mode, where I could prevent the hang if I
closed the previous directory's window quickly enough. But it did happen
in non-spatial mode also, if I opened any file in those directories.
Then again if I opened it with right click -> open with, it might not
happen.

Now I moved the directory around to another subdirectory, and I cannot
reproduce the problem anymore even in the spatial mode. I moved it
around already before without able to fix the problem, but no somehow
I've fixed the problem without knowing what I did.

So, there you go, I added exactly zero information to this bug, except
for "Nautilus hangs in random weird ways sometimes when _opening_
something (directory/file)". I did not get anything meaningful in the
logs, neither I was able to gdb enough when I tried.

If any of you have something reproducible on two machines, that would be
a miracle already.

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Nautilus freezes when opening some directories
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