Nautilus is very slow to start, help?

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Hey all,

For some reason, Nautilus is very slow to start. I got to a slow count of 15 from when I hit enter in the terminal, to when Nautilus finally showed up. And I seen it slower. It also seems to make file open/save dialogs in other apps slow. Like when saving a pdf via Firefox.

The terminal I launched Nautilus from shows no error messages.

Nothing useful shows up in system logs either. journalctl -a --followJust:

Sep 09 20:28:16 mysystem gnome-shell[6176]: Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x7000007

While researching this issue, I found a lot of posts about Tracker and NFS slowing things down. But when I disable Tracker via Settings -> Search -> Toggle in top right, it doesn’t make any difference. That is the right way to turn Tracker off, right?

Then I found some mention of having NFS mount in the root of my home directory causing issues. So I moved all my NFS mounts into a sub directory. It didn’t help.

I also found out about .trackerignore files via dconf, but adding that file to the directory my NFS shares are mounted in did not help. Do I need to actually put something in the file?

To top everything off, disabling my NFS mounts entirely did not help.

Finally, a recent power outage gave me cause to restart. Directly after restarting, Nautilus was starting instantly. Now, a day or so later, it’s starting slowly.

Could you give me some tips on how to further troubleshoot this? My search results have hit their limit.

I’m running Pop!_OS 20.04, so Nautilus 3.36.3-stable.

Thanks in advance!

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Did you do a pkill nautilus ( which is needed to reload nautilus process ). Closing all nautilus windows doesn’t help here.

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Just tried it, it didn’t seem to help.

I had been waiting long enough between starts that ps aux | grep nautilus wouldn’t show any nautilus processes.

Also, something I forgot to mention, is that if I leave the window open, new windows start up just fine. Though, apparently, save dialogs are just as slow…

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When restarting, were the NFS mounts still disabled?
Were NFS mounts enabled when it got slow again?

The open/save dialogs being affected suggests me the problem is in either GTK or GIO/GVfs.

I think “NFS inside home” is a special case somehow. If you set your mountpoints to under /mnt/ and create symbolic links in your home folder to the mount points, does it improve anything?

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Nope, I had finished with that test before the restart. So they up and running when I opened Nautilus again.

Yes.

I’ll try that and find out.

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