Thank you for your bug report, does it do it with any user? Do you have any special file, image or anything in your user directory that could cause issues to nautilus thumbnailing. Does turning thumbnailing off workarounds the issue?
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069123 Title: Nautilus freeze for minute when first open home folder Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Ubuntu 12.10 (Latest updates installed for 2012-10-20) Nautilus 3.4.2 If launch «Nautilus» after OS start or after «killall nautilus» its freeze for approximately a minute. This happens only when open «Home» folder. Which enabled compiz "Show repaint" plugin became visible full window redraw many times. In attachment You can find a log of executing trace command «strace -ttt -o ~/Template/nautilus.strace nautilus» In this log a lot of command similar to 1350668341.300860 brk(0x1b7e000) = 0x1b7e000 1350668341.301461 brk(0x1b6e000) = 0x1b6e000 1350668341.301585 brk(0x1b5e000) = 0x1b5e000 1350668341.302492 brk(0x1b4e000) = 0x1b4e000 1350668341.306849 lstat("/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/16/inode-directory.svg", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=10, ...}) = 0 1350668341.307088 stat("/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/16/inode-directory.svg", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11672, ...}) = 0 1350668341.307234 readlink("/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/16/inode-directory.svg", "folder.svg"..., 256) = 10 1350668341.307970 open("/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/16/inode-directory.svg", O_RDONLY) = 21 1350668341.308310 fstat(21, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11672, ...}) = 0 1350668341.308521 read(21, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UT"..., 65536) = 11672 1350668341.312051 read(21, "", 65536) = 0 1350668341.313954 close(21) = 0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1069123/+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