[Bug 597512] Re: gnome-settings manager freezes system on login

2010-07-29 Thread MarkG
I logged it on the Gnome bugzilla at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625609 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #625609 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625609 -- gnome-settings manager freezes system on login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597512 You received this b

[Bug 597512] Re: gnome-settings manager freezes system on login

2010-07-29 Thread MarkG
I finally managed to attach strace before it stopped screwing up the system and it's just repeatedly calling lstat() on thousands and thousands of thumbnail files. That's clearly a dumb thing to be doing but I'm still surprised that it's so insanely slow as I'd expect the directory information to b

[Bug 597512] Re: gnome-settings manager freezes system on login

2010-06-23 Thread MarkG
I do apparently have over 15,000 thumbnails, so that could be the issue. -- gnome-settings manager freezes system on login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/597512 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubu

[Bug 597512] Re: gnome-settings manager freezes system on login

2010-06-22 Thread MarkG
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50774263/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50774264/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50774265/ProcStatus.txt -- gnome-

[Bug 597512] [NEW] gnome-settings manager freezes system on login

2010-06-22 Thread MarkG
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon When I first logged in, I started up firefox and it began loading the pages from the previous session, then froze. I could see the CPU usage was well over 50%, but looking in top no process was using more than 2%; instead, I was seei