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asphantix

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Registered: 2012-08-20

Posts: 12

Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

My nautilus does not show any thumbnails anymore. I didn't upgrade nautilus lately.
See my pacman.conf log:

[2012-08-30 12:27] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-30 12:27] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-30 12:27] Running 'pacman -S -u'
[2012-08-30 12:27] starting full system upgrade
[2012-08-30 12:30] removed libsystemd (188-2)
[2012-08-30 12:30] removed systemd-tools (188-2)
[2012-08-30 12:30] upgraded glib2 (2.32.4-1 -> 2.33.10-1)
[2012-08-30 12:30] upgraded at-spi2-core (2.4.2-1 -> 2.5.5-1)
[2012-08-30 12:30] upgraded atk (2.4.0-1 -> 2.5.4-1)
[2012-08-30 12:30] upgraded at-spi2-atk (2.4.0-1 -> 2.5.90-1)
[2012-08-30 12:30] warning: /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf installed as /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf.pacnew
[2012-08-30 12:30] upgraded davfs2 (1.4.6-2 -> 1.4.7-1)
[2012-08-30 12:30] upgraded filesystem (2012.7-1 -> 2012.8-1)
[2012-08-30 12:30] upgraded libevent (2.0.19-1 -> 2.0.20-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded firefox (14.0.1-1 -> 15.0-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded firefox-i18n-de (14.0.1-1 -> 15.0-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded gc (7.2-1 -> 7.2.d-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded gdk-pixbuf2 (2.26.2-1 -> 2.26.3-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] Generating locales...
[2012-08-30 12:31]   de_DE.UTF-8... done
[2012-08-30 12:31]   de_DE.ISO-8859-1... done
[2012-08-30 12:31] Generation complete.
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded glibc (2.16.0-3 -> 2.16.0-4)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded glibmm (2.32.1-1 -> 2.33.3-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded gobject-introspection (1.32.1-2 -> 1.33.9-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded gsettings-desktop-schemas (3.4.2-1 -> 3.5.90-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded hspell (1.1-2 -> 1.2-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service'
[2012-08-30 12:31] :: Append 'init=/bin/systemd' to your kernel command line in your
[2012-08-30 12:31]    bootloader to replace sysvinit with systemd
[2012-08-30 12:31] installed systemd (189-3)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded initscripts (2012.08.3-1 -> 2012.08.3-2)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded lib32-glibc (2.16.0-3 -> 2.16.0-4)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded libatasmart (0.18-2 -> 0.19-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded libdrm (2.4.38-1 -> 2.4.39-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded libedit (20120311_3.0-1 -> 20120601_3.0-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded libwbclient (3.6.7-1 -> 3.6.7-2)
[2012-08-30 12:31] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-08-30 12:31] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio.  Please wait...
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Starting build: 3.5.3-1-ARCH
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [pata]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [scsi]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Starting build: 3.5.3-1-ARCH
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [base]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [pata]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [scsi]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [sata]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [usbinput]
[2012-08-30 12:31]   -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-08-30 12:31] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded linux (3.5.2-1 -> 3.5.3-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded linux-headers (3.5.2-1 -> 3.5.3-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded lirc-utils (1:0.9.0-25 -> 1:0.9.0-26)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded openssh (6.0p1-3 -> 6.1p1-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded smbclient (3.6.7-1 -> 3.6.7-2)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded thunderbird (14.0-1 -> 15.0-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded thunderbird-i18n-de (14.0-1 -> 15.0-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded upower (0.9.17-2 -> 0.9.18-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded xf86-video-intel (2.20.4-1 -> 2.20.5-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.12.3.901-1 -> 1.12.4-1)
[2012-08-30 12:31] upgraded xorg-server (1.12.3.901-1 -> 1.12.4-1)
[2012-08-30 12:32] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-asphantix/PKGDEST.RHo/ttf-vlgothic-20120829-1-any.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-08-30 12:33] Updating font cache... done.
[2012-08-30 12:33] upgraded ttf-vlgothic (20120827-1 -> 20120829-1)
[2012-08-30 13:03] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-30 13:03] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-30 13:10] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-30 13:10] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-30 13:16] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-asphantix/PKGDEST.Yia/nuvola-bzr-535-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-08-30 13:16] sh: pre_upgrade: Kommando nicht gefunden.
[2012-08-30 13:16] sh: post_upgrade: Kommando nicht gefunden.
[2012-08-30 13:16] upgraded nuvola-bzr (510-1 -> 535-1)
[2012-08-30 14:12] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-31 06:29] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-31 06:29] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-31 06:30] Running 'pacman -S -u'
[2012-08-31 06:30] starting full system upgrade
[2012-08-31 06:31] upgraded imagemagick (6.7.8.9-1 -> 6.7.9.2-1)
[2012-08-31 06:31] upgraded mpfr (3.1.1-1 -> 3.1.1.p2-1)
[2012-08-31 06:31] upgraded ppp (2.4.5-3 -> 2.4.5-4)
[2012-08-31 06:31] upgraded systemd (189-3 -> 189-4)
[2012-08-31 06:31] installed sysvinit-tools (2.88-7)
[2012-08-31 06:31] upgraded sysvinit (2.88-6 -> 2.88-7)
[2012-08-31 06:49] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-asphantix/PKGDEST.XON/jdk-7.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-08-31 06:49] upgraded jdk (7.6-1 -> 7.7-1)
[2012-08-31 06:51] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-asphantix/PKGDEST.lH7/jre-7.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-08-31 06:51] upgraded jre (7.6-1 -> 7.7-1)
[2012-08-31 08:19] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-31 08:19] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-31 09:37] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-31 09:37] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-31 09:48] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-asphantix/PKGDEST.H0f/cnijfilter-mg5200-3.40-10-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-08-31 09:48] upgraded cnijfilter-mg5200 (3.40-9 -> 3.40-10)
[2012-08-31 10:57] Running 'pacman -S --asdeps --needed community/python2-distutils-extra archlinuxfr/libdbusmenu'
[2012-08-31 10:57] installed python2-distutils-extra (2.32-1)
[2012-08-31 10:57] installed libdbusmenu (0.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 11:00] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-asphantix/PKGDEST.BMU/lightread-1.1.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-08-31 11:00] installed lightread (1.1.1-1)
[2012-08-31 11:00] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-31 11:00] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-31 11:00] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-31 11:00] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-31 12:58] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-31 12:58] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-31 12:58] Running 'pacman -S -u'
[2012-08-31 12:58] starting full system upgrade
[2012-08-31 12:59] upgraded lib32-gdk-pixbuf2 (2.26.2-1 -> 2.26.3-1)
[2012-08-31 12:59] upgraded libreoffice-de (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 12:59] upgraded libreoffice-en-US (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libreoffice-common (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libreoffice-base (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libreoffice-calc (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libreoffice-draw (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libreoffice-gnome (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libreoffice-impress (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libwps (0.2.2-2 -> 0.2.7-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libreoffice-writer (3.5.6-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libwebkit (1.8.2-1 -> 1.8.3-1)
[2012-08-31 13:00] upgraded libwebkit3 (1.8.2-1 -> 1.8.3-1)
[2012-08-31 13:01] Running 'pacman -S extra/nautilus'
[2012-08-31 13:01] upgraded nautilus (3.4.2-1 -> 3.4.2-1)
[2012-08-31 13:02] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-31 13:02] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-31 13:03] Running 'pacman -S extra/clucene'
[2012-08-31 13:03] installed clucene (2.3.3.4-6)
[2012-08-31 13:11] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2012-08-31 13:11] synchronizing package lists
[2012-08-31 13:11] Running 'pacman -S libreoffice'
[2012-08-31 13:12] upgraded libreoffice-common (3.6.1-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] upgraded libreoffice-base (3.6.1-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] upgraded libreoffice-calc (3.6.1-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] upgraded libreoffice-draw (3.6.1-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] upgraded libreoffice-gnome (3.6.1-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] upgraded libreoffice-impress (3.6.1-1 -> 3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed strigi (0.7.7-2)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed attica (0.4.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed redland-storage-virtuoso (1:1.0.15-3)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed libiodbc (3.52.8-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed virtuoso-base (6.1.6-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed soprano (2.8.0-2)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed grantlee (0.2.0-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed shared-desktop-ontologies (0.10.0-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed qca (2.0.3-2)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed libdbusmenu-qt (0.9.2-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed polkit-qt (0.103.0-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed ilmbase (1.0.2-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed openexr (1.7.0-2)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed docbook-xml (4.5-5)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed docbook-xsl (1.77.1-2)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed lsof (4.86-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed udisks (1.0.4-5)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed kdelibs (4.9.0-4)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed libreoffice-kde4 (3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed libreoffice-math (3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed postgresql-libs (9.1.4-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed libreoffice-postgresql-connector (3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed libreoffice-sdk (3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] installed libreoffice-sdk-doc (3.6.1-1)
[2012-08-31 13:12] upgraded libreoffice-writer (3.6.1-1 -> 3.6.1-1)

It just looks like that:

Well since there is a clock instead of a thumbnail I think the thumbnail is stuck in a loop.
Sometimes nautilus takes 90% CPU. But there are no errors when starting nautilus from the terminal.

I hope you can help me.

gandalfmagic

Member

Registered: 2012-08-17

Posts: 8

Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

Exact the same issue here.

EDIT: I've just verified the thumbnail files are created in my ~/.thumbnails/normal/ folder.

Thank you.

Last edited by gandalfmagic (2012-09-04 09:49:20)

asphantix

Member

Registered: 2012-08-20

Posts: 12

Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

Did you also enable the testing and community-testing repos?

gandalfmagic

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Registered: 2012-08-17

Posts: 8

Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

Yes for me.

Here is the list of installed packages from testing

testing/coreutils 8.19-1 (base) [installed]
testing/cups 1.6.1-6 [installed]
testing/cups-filters 1.0.23-1 [installed]
testing/hwids 20120831-1 [installed]
testing/libcups 1.6.1-6 [installed]
testing/network-manager-applet 0.9.6.2-1 [installed]
testing/networkmanager 0.9.6.0-1 [installed]
testing/networkmanager-openconnect 0.9.6.2-1 [installed]
testing/networkmanager-openvpn 0.9.6.0-1 [installed]
testing/networkmanager-pptp 0.9.6.0-1 [installed]
testing/networkmanager-vpnc 0.9.6.0-1 [installed]
testing/openconnect 1:4.06-1 [installed]
testing/ppp 2.4.5-4 (base) [installed]
testing/procps-ng 3.3.3-5 (base) [installed]
testing/qpdf 3.0.1-2 [installed]
testing/sudo 1.8.6-1 [installed]
testing/sysvinit 2.88-8 (base) [installed]
testing/sysvinit-tools 2.88-8 (base) [installed]
testing/upower 0.9.18-2 [installed]
testing/util-linux 2.22-2 (base) [installed]
multilib-testing/lib32-util-linux 2.22-1 [installed]

Thank you.

Last edited by gandalfmagic (2012-09-05 07:19:20)

asphantix

Member

Registered: 2012-08-20

Posts: 12

Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

I can't see that any testing package broke the thumbnailer

Please can anyone who doesn't have that issue run the following and give me the output:

ls /usr/bin | grep thumb

and

ls /usr/share/thumbnailers

Please help

Last edited by asphantix (2012-09-06 18:50:36)

gandalfmagic

Member

Registered: 2012-08-17

Posts: 8

Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

Here is my results:

$ ls /usr/bin | grep thumb

blender-thumbnailer.py
cover-thumbnailer
cover-thumbnailer-gui
evince-thumbnailer
ffmpegthumbnailer
gnome-exe-thumbnailer
gnome-thumbnail-font
gnome-web-thumbnail
gsf-office-thumbnailer
mtp-thumb
ooo-thumbnailer
raw-thumbnailer
thumbnail
totem-video-thumbnailer

$ ls /usr/share/thumbnailers

cover.thumbnailer
evince.thumbnailer
exe-dll-msi.thumbnailer
ffmpeg.thumbnailer
ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer
gnome-font-viewer.thumbnailer
gnome-raw-thumbnailer.thumbnailer
gnome-web-photo.thumbnailer
gsf-office.thumbnailer
ooo-thumbnailer.thumbnailer
totem.thumbnailer

If you want me to make some test, you only have to tell me what you need.

asphantix

Member

Registered: 2012-08-20

Posts: 12

Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

thank you very much, unfortunality installing all thumbnailers you have didn't solve my problem. I really don't know what is going on...

asphantix

Member

Registered: 2012-08-20

Posts: 12

Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

fixed it!

Solution: I disabled the gnome-unstable repository and re-installed glib2

Since I know gnome-unstable is really unstable here's how to get rid of all gnome-unstable packages:
Install paclist from AUR
do

paclist gnome-unstable

while haveing that repo enabled

It will give you a list of packages installed from gnome-unstable.
Just keep them in mind, disable the gnome-unstable repo and reinstall these packages.

Last edited by asphantix (2012-09-07 10:40:16)

kernelOfTruth

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2010-05-11

Posts: 20

Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

that did it for me !

I had a similar issue but on Gentoo - having an too new glib2 caused issues - the thumbnails got created but weren't displayed in nautilus

thanks asphantix

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gandalfmagic

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Registered: 2012-08-17

Posts: 8

Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

Perfect, worked for me too.

Thank you asphantix

shmibs

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Registered: 2012-09-11

Posts: 93

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Re: Thumbnailer fails in Nautilus for images and documents

i'm getting this issue too under mate. what glib2 version are you guys using? mine is currently 2.34.1-1

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