Thanks. It appears your sda harddisk (Seagate 500GB) is failing with hardware errors. I suggest the best, perhaps only, solution is to replace the harddisk. At least that's the first thing I would do before assuming this is a software problem...
Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7803 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/08:58:b8:a9:0a/00:00:37:00:00/40 tag 11 ncq dma 4096 in res 41/40:08:b8:a9:0a/00:00:37:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC } Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#11 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#11 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#11 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#11 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 37 0a a9 b8 00 00 08 00 Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 923445688 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 Oct 23 19:10:22 g-linux kernel: ata1: EH complete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899720 Title: Gnome takes MORE THAN 20 SECONDS to open a folder To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1899720/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs