I can confirm the apparently crazy behavior that Phil reported. The file from Phil, when put in the home directory, crashes nautilus with the following error (NOTICE: it's a crash in glibc!)
Jan 2 12:09:40 romano-asus kernel: [307815.741994] nautilus[10155]: segfault at b6ad7fd8 ip 073fad89 sp b6ad7fdc error 6 in libc-2.13.so[738b000+176000] Jan 2 12:10:05 romano-asus kernel: [307839.937064] nautilus[10186]: segfault at b6b09fd8 ip 036afd89 sp b6b09fdc error 6 in libc-2.13.so[3640000+176000] If I put it in a subdir, the thumbnail is not generated, but nautilus do not crash. I can open the svg in eog, it just uses a lot of resources, and so much memory that the system is sluggish after doing it, and need a while to come back to normal behavior. Error #6 is ENXIO? Invalid device or address? Evidently the problem is still here, and quite severe too. Put that file in your home dir and a non-technical user will be unable to open Nautilus again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to librsvg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/305546 Title: Nautilus crashing/freezing when opening folder with svg file Status in libRSVG - SVG Rendering Library: New Status in “librsvg” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in Debian GNU/Linux: Invalid Bug description: Strange thing started happening a few days ago: When I access nautilus from the Places menu and open my home directory (named eric) nautilus always freezes. I can open subdirectories and other bookmarks such as Documents, Pictures, etc and browse files, but the second I browse to my main home directory, nautilus freezes. I can click any icons for sub- folders in my home folder, but nautilus will hang and, within a few seconds, turn grey and stay that way. The only way to get nautilus to close is by forcing a quit. I can access any of the files and folders by CLI, or by using emelFM2. After much searching, I found an old bug report at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/librsvg/+bug/30010 . . . which seemed to blame the crashiness on folders containing an svg image. Interestingly enough, I was messing around in Inkscape the other day trying to create a business card and saved my work into my home folder as an svg. As soon as I deleted or moved that file Nautilus no longer crashes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/librsvg/+bug/305546/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp