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frix

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Registered: 2011-05-02

Posts: 37

[Solved] Gnome Shell and GVFS freezes

Dear all,

I've been experiencing Gnome Shell freezes when copying large files from remote GVFS mounts, for at least a year -- I can't exactly remember when it started. I have run out of ideas, and I'd love it if somebody could point me towards the right direction.

Here is the observed behavior :

  0) Mount a remote SFTP server using Nautilus (Ctrl-L then sftp://user@server)
  1) Copy a file from the remote server to the local disk
  2) The whole screen freezes while the file is copying. I can move the mouse and keyboard continues to work, but any action (keyboard shortcut, click, program started from a VT using DISPLAY=:0,...) is only handled properly when Gnome returns control back to me once the file is copied.
  3) Killing the gvfsd-sftp process immediately restores control.

What I have tried :

  0) If I run Gnome Shell using startx in a VT (with "exec gnome-session" in my ~/.xinitrc), the freezes disappear!
  1) If I run Gnome Shell under a different Login Manager (I tried lxdm), the freezes still happen.
  2) Gnome Shell also freezes if I mount the share using gvfs-mount and copy the file using gvfs-copy.
  3) Gnome Shell also freezes with other kinds of GVFS mounts -- e.g. copying from an Android device using MTP.
  4) I have tried strace'ing the gvfsd-sftp and gnome-shell processes, but saw nothing strange.
  5) I have tried attaching GDB to the gnome-shell process. Wasn't able to find anything that made sense to me.

Thanks a lot if you happen to have a brilliant idea that could solve this!

Software versions (at the time of writing) are :

kernel: 3.17.1 (64-bit)
video driver: xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.11
gvfs: 1.22.1
gdm: 3.14.1
dbus: 1.8.8
gnome-shell: 3.14.1
nautilus: 3.14.0

Last edited by frix (2014-11-18 19:05:34)

C0is@s

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Registered: 2014-01-17

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell and GVFS freezes

I have the same problem, can anyone help? I've being using filezilla because of this problem.

Same SW versions as frix, only I have and Intel HD4000.

Thanks in advance.

frix

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Registered: 2011-05-02

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell and GVFS freezes

Glad to know I'm not alone in this, keep me posted if you find something!

frix

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Registered: 2011-05-02

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell and GVFS freezes

C0is@s, are you by any chance using the gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet extension? The shell no longer freezes when I disable it...

somodi

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Registered: 2013-05-21

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell and GVFS freezes

C0is@s, are you by any chance using the gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet extension? The shell no longer freezes when I disable it...

+1
Disabling the extension works for me, thanks.

frix

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Registered: 2011-05-02

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell and GVFS freezes

Nice! FYI, here is the relevant issue on GitHub. I also added a workaround PR that avoids freezing on SFTP and MTP mounts, feel free to chime in and help find a better way of solving this.

https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome- … issues/207

C0is@s

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Registered: 2014-01-17

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell and GVFS freezes

C0is@s, are you by any chance using the gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet extension? The shell no longer freezes when I disable it...

+1
Disabling the extension works for me, thanks.

Hello,

Sorry for the late response. Yes, I'm using the applet. And now I remember that I had to hack the metadata so it could work on gnome 3.16.

I will update to the latest version and let you know if it happens again.

Many thanks,

Br.

C0is@s

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Registered: 2014-01-17

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell and GVFS freezes

Hello,

I've installed the latest version of the applet and the problem is gone! It's working fine now

Thanks,

Br