I analyzed the problem and found out, that it does not seem to be a problem with the images I try to open.
The problem seems to be a complex SVG file that got visited when I browse to the destination directory of the image. I checked the debugger output of gdb and I saw, that nautilus start a new thread whenever I visit the directory with this SVG file. But because this SVG file is really complex, this thread doesn't terminate in an apropriate time. When I open another image without this thread to be terminated, nautilus hangs... (Perhaps, because it waits for a lock to be released by the thread that creates the SVG preview) Unfortunately I can't disclose this SVG file by now. But it is apparently very complex - Inkscape needs a lot of memory and time to render it. So perhaps the SVG thumbnailing mechanism of nautilus has to be prevented to thumbnail complex images... -- Nautilus hangs when clicking on preview images https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391757 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
