Bug#673218: #673218 - nautilus: hangs on file properties waiting for tracker

It seems this issue actually pertains to tracker. There are several bug reports filed for this issue under its package, namely this one: #612242 .

Bug#673218: #673218 - nautilus: hangs on file properties waiting for tracker

It seems the regular gnome search feature also causes tracker-store to start, but it uses less CPU.

Bug#673218: #673218 - nautilus: hangs on file properties waiting for tracker

I can reproduce this bug in nautilus 3.14 in Debian stable 8.4. This issue also causes high CPU usage, thus high CPU temperature. The workaround is to kill the process. Every boot, tracker-store starts and eats up a ton of CPU time. Also typing a search string in nautilus causes it to hang

Bug#673218: #673218 - nautilus: hangs on file properties waiting for tracker

Hey Andreas, this is an old bug. Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer nautilus version like 3.4.2-1+build1 or 3.8.2-3 ? thanks regards Pedro