[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000186]: xffm freezes at startup

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The following bug requires your FEEDBACK.
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000186
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Reporter:                   zaphod
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000186
Category:                   xffm
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2004-05-04 08:34 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-07-15 03:48 GMT
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Summary:                    xffm freezes at startup
Description: 
xffm has been running satisfactorily for a while. At some point it blocked
(sadly I can't remember the exact circumstances).From then it starts, then
freezes each I try to go on my home directory...
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 xfce_flyflap - 2004-06-22 13:03 GMT 
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I had similar problems the first times I tried browsing my home directory
with a newly compiled xffm 4.1.3. The progress indicator always stopped
after adding a number of files divisible by 128, specifically after 256
files and 384 files. The xffm process would then consume 100% CPU time and
stop responding for at least a minute. At that time my home directory had
around 475 files so I thought that maybe some hashtable or other structure
was too small for them all and reorganized my home directory. That worked
around the problem.

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 edscott - 2004-06-22 13:22 GMT 
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I think this could be due to gtk going into an endless recursive loop while
trying to keep the progress bar updated. If you could run with gdb and do
ctrl-c when it goes into the 100% cpu loop and then obtain a backtrace
from the gbd prompt it would help us confirm whether or not this is the
case.