On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:24:42PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
Yet another reason to hate the Gnome/GTK file open dialog.
On my system it is now taking more than 30 seconds to open the file opening window. What's it trying to do for all this time and/or how can I fix it?
Presumably it's trying to open something that isn't there or there is a broken nfs/network link of some sort but it's a broken design that hangs for such a long time trying to do something and doesn't tell me what's wrong either.
After a bit of searching around I found what the problem was, an smbmount that had lost what it was mounting. However it wasn't as if it was set up to be visible on the file open dialog, it was just the contents of a sub-directory that had gone AWOL.
I now hate that file dialog even more than I did when it first appeared, not only is it a pain to use, it's semi-broken as well.