Bug 136122

Summary:	KDE and Gnome filemanagers (and Nautilus filemanager) lock up when previewing group 3 or 4 monochrome tiff files.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Siva Mahalingam <siva>
Component:	X11 Applications	Assignee:	Philipp Thomas <pth>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	3 large tiff files

Description Siva Mahalingam 2005-11-30 16:25:59 UTC

If file previewfor Tiff files is enabled, the KDE, Gnome and Nautilus file managers lock up when opening a directory window with a large number of Tiff files. 

This problem seems to be a problem with the library used to preview Tiff files as reported here previously.

http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20030915/011778.html

The same as reported in the URL above happens with SuSE 9.3 - ie. disk thrashing and lock up of the whole computer for several minutes and then everything works fine. However with SuSE 10 only the file manager window with the tiff file locks up, but that window never displays anything no matter how long you wait.

On both SuSE 9.3 and 10, KDE and Gnome the problem is resolved by disabling file preview for tiff files.

Comment 1 Martin Lasarsch 2005-12-01 11:25:16 UTC

Philipp, the link says it's imlib related. If you think not, please reassign to us.

Comment 2 Philipp Thomas 2005-12-01 14:23:22 UTC

I can't reproduce it with tiff images created myself. So I'd need at least one of your tiff images in order to reproduce this behaviour.

Comment 3 Siva Mahalingam 2005-12-01 17:08:44 UTC

Created attachment 59577 [details]
3 large tiff files

Find attached a zip file with 3 group 4 copmressed monochrome tiff files.

Please create a directory on your desktop and unzip the archive into it. 

Then in Gnome select 
Applications > System > filemanager > File Browser and 
go to edit >preferences > preview tab > show thumbnails and enable previews for local files.

Then open the folder with the tiffs in it using File Browser. 

The result is that the hard drive is hammered for about 10 minutes while the sysyem is unresponsive, and then the system responds as normal.

I get the same effect for a large number smaller A4 tiffs in a directory. 

You get the same effect if you switch off the previews and right click on the tiff icon and select "Open with Document Viewer". Ditto with "Open with image viewer".

The PC I am using is a 400MHz AMD K6 machine with 192MB RAM. A 75Mhz Pentium 1 Windows 95 client with 40MB RAM has no trouble viewing the same file with the imaging application in accessories and no disk thrashing takes place.

Comment 4 Torsten Duwe 2006-06-06 09:24:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 136118 ***