[Bug 72607] Nautilus trying to stat its bookmarks at startup makes bad interaction with nfs

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have a bookmark in nautilus to an NFS-mounted partition, if I log in
in gnome, with autofs/NFS enabled, I cannot log in, nautilus blocks the
entire login process by hanging on NFS because the server is
unavailable. While it's true that the problem lies in the NFS
architecture, I think that nautilus should not stat/test existence for
its bookmarks - not sure how to handle the problem. In any case, I
cannot login now even rebooting the system (of course I will disable
NFS), a timeout to the existence test should be added. Attaching a
backtrace in case it helps.

(gdb) where
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb746fc76 in access () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7632506 in IA__g_file_test (
    filename=0x8231ec8 "/net/zapotek/media/hda6/users/gina/Amule-Incoming",
    test=G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS) at gfileutils.c:282
#3  0x080d6bb3 in nautilus_bookmark_uri_known_not_to_exist (bookmark=0x822d260)
    at nautilus-bookmark.c:563
#4  0x080d6f5a in nautilus_bookmark_connect_file (bookmark=0x822d260)
    at nautilus-bookmark.c:461
#5  0x080d70de in nautilus_bookmark_new_with_icon (
    uri=0x822ee18 "file:///net/zapotek/media/hda6/users/gina/Amule-Incoming",
    name=0x8231f00 "Amule-Incoming", has_custom_name=0,
    icon=0x8231cc0 "gnome-fs-directory") at nautilus-bookmark.c:494
#6  0x0806bf7f in nautilus_bookmark_list_load_file (bookmarks=0x822d1c8)
    at nautilus-bookmark-list.c:115
#7  0x0806cb59 in nautilus_bookmark_list_init (bookmarks=0x822d1c8)
    at nautilus-bookmark-list.c:166
#8  0xb76e789a in IA__g_type_create_instance (type=136504368) at gtype.c:1567
#9  0xb76ce952 in g_object_constructor (type=136504368,
    n_construct_properties=0, construct_params=0x0) at gobject.c:1041
#10 0xb76ccbdb in IA__g_object_newv (object_type=136504368, n_parameters=0,
    parameters=0x0) at gobject.c:937
#11 0xb76cd73f in IA__g_object_new_valist (object_type=136504368,
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
    first_property_name=0x0, var_args=0xbf9480e8 "\003") at gobject.c:981
#12 0xb76cd8f0 in IA__g_object_new (object_type=136504368,
    first_property_name=0x0) at gobject.c:795
#13 0x0806c243 in nautilus_bookmark_list_new () at nautilus-bookmark-list.c:511
#14 0x080951bc in nautilus_get_bookmark_list ()
    at nautilus-window-bookmarks.c:57
#15 0x0809521a in nautilus_window_initialize_bookmarks_menu (window=0x81f4068)
    at nautilus-window-bookmarks.c:303
#16 0x0809d463 in nautilus_window_init (window=0x81f4068)
    at nautilus-window.c:174
#17 0xb76e76ce in IA__g_type_create_instance (type=136257488) at gtype.c:1559
#18 0xb76ce952 in g_object_constructor (type=136257488,
    n_construct_properties=3, construct_params=0x81f2da8) at gobject.c:1041
#19 0x0809d1b3 in nautilus_window_constructor (type=136257488,
    n_construct_properties=3, construct_params=0x81f2da8)
    at nautilus-window.c:656
#20 0xb76ccbdb in IA__g_object_newv (object_type=136257488, n_parameters=4,
    parameters=0x81f3028) at gobject.c:937
#21 0xb76cd7e9 in IA__g_object_new_valist (object_type=136257488,
    first_property_name=0x813ba32 "app", var_args=0xbf948504 "")
    at gobject.c:1022
#22 0xb7ca1038 in gtk_widget_new () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#23 0x08071a20 in nautilus_desktop_window_new (application=0x81b6db0,
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
    screen=0x81910e0) at nautilus-desktop-window.c:116
#24 0x0806a8a9 in nautilus_application_open_desktop (application=0x81b6db0)
    at nautilus-application.c:776
#25 0xb7725cd0 in ORBit_c_stub_invoke () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
#26 0x08067889 in Nautilus_Shell_start_desktop (_obj=0x81e6c20, ev=0xbf948624)
    at nautilus-shell-interface-stubs.c:144
#27 0x0806b418 in nautilus_application_startup (application=0x81b6db0,
    kill_shell=0, restart_shell=0, no_default_window=0, no_desktop=0,
    do_first_time_druid_check=1, browser_window=0,
    startup_id=0x81c3f08 "_TIME109067060", geometry=0x0, session_to_load=0x0,
    urls=0x0) at nautilus-application.c:631
#28 0x0807badc in main (argc=1, argv=0xbf948944) at nautilus-main.c:360
#29 0xb73c78cc in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#30 0x08067621 in _start ()

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Nautilus trying to stat its bookmarks at startup makes bad interaction with nfs
https://launchpad.net/bugs/72607