John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaubitz) what use do I have that this bug might have been fixed around gvfs_1.22 when the Ubuntu 14.04.1 that I currently use uses gvfs (1.20.3-0ubuntu1) released 2015-02-02 and this bug is still present in it?!
For those that need a temporary fix for this bug, use the sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata (makes gvfs-metadata non executable) command, but be warned, after doing this nautilus tends to forget some settings and tweaks. For instance, on my computer, the desktop icons ( I have "show desktop icons" enabled) tend to be moved on the left side of the screen (in random order) on each system restart (this will definitely happen if you erased the file(s) in ~/.local/share/gvfs- metadata). The "fix" can be reversed with sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata (makes gvfs-metadata executable again). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/517021 Title: gvfsd-metadata causes 100% CPU usage Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gvfs package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gvfs My disk space was really full at one moment, no byte left free. People say, that does corrupt the files in the ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata folder, so the gvfsd-metadata can't read it without being screwed up. Workaround: run "rm -rf ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata" Expected results: gvfsd-metadata should be able to handle the no space left situation. --- Original description --- After installing 9.10 Ubuntu 64bit browsing and opening folder in nautilus or Gnome-commander take several minutes when there are many files in it e.g. 10.000. Interestingly Midnight-commander does not have this problem. Opening such folders does not hang with MC. Using "top" i can see that "gvfsd-metadata" is using 100% CPU and when i kill it the computer stops "hanging". I am using the 32bit version of Karmic too and there is no such Problem (although tested on a different computer). Please fix this because it is highly annyoing. Right now i am killing it every 20s with the watch command to be able to work at all. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/517021/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
