Bug 66310 – gst-thumbnail makes the processor usage climb to 99% and stays there forever

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description fabio oliveira 2004-10-04 07:05:03 UTC]

When Nautilus is launched, gst-thumbnail enters the scene to create a thumbail of movie and image currently at the folder. Sometimes, after it is done, gst-thumbnail "hangs" and the cpu usage remains at 99%. One then has to go and manually kill the process. This occurs even after the Nautilus window is closed.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Nautilus whit the option "Show thumbnails" turned on
2.Navigate to a folder that has images in it
3.Wait untill all thumbnails are seen

Actual Results:  
The cpu usage climbs to 99% and stays there untill the gst-thumbnails process is
killed.

Expected Results:  
Finish creating the thumbnails, and shut itself down.

Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0,
2.6.7-gentoo-r14 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
distcc 2.17 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gentoo-pt.org/pub/gentoo
ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/
http://gentoo.felisberto.net/ http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/Linux/gentoo
http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://mitra/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dga directfb
divx4linux dvd encode esd ethereal foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib
ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn ncurses
nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline
samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype usb videos x86 xml2 xmms
xosd xprint xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-10-05 01:07:12 UTC]

we dont install nautilus-media by default anymore because of it's instability. I'd suggest you remove it for now if it isn't working.