#1099000 nautilus non functional when initiated remotely

Package:
nautilus
Source:
nautilus
Description:
file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
Submitter:
Curry Godby
Date:
2025-02-27 04:51:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1099000#5
Date:
2025-02-27 04:47:44 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

When initiating nautilus from a remote system there are significant response
delays and fails to provide basic funcionality. The following steps illistrates how to reproduce the issue (see description underneath the steps):

  1 [batchusr@cgalmalinux8a]:/tmp ssh -X cgdebian12a

%   in a terminal session on a remote host running a graphical envionment,
%   initiate ssh -X <debian 12.9 host>

%   in this case a gnome-terminal session on host cgalmalinux8a that is
%   running a wayland gnome graphical environment initiates
%   "ssh -X cgdebian12a"

  2 Linux cgdebian12a 6.1.0-31-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.128-1 (2025-02-07) x86_64
  3
  4 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
  5 the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
  6 individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
  7
  8 Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
  9 permitted by applicable law.
 10 Last login: Fri Feb 21 17:50:51 2025 from 172.30.50.62

%   lines 2-10 confirm establising a ssh connection on host cgdebian12a
%   which is a debian 12.9 host.  For reference,
%   "apt-get task-gnome-desktop" was used to establish the gnome environment
%   which includes nautilus on host cgdebian12a.

 11 [batchusr@cgdebian12a]:/home/batchusr date; nautilus --version; date

%   on one command line in the ssh -X cgdebian12a session, initiate 3 programs:
%   date; nautilus --version; date

 12 Fri Feb 21 05:53:55 PM EST 2025
 13 ** Message: 17:53:55.993: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files
 14 libEGL warning: DRI3: failed to query the version
 15 GNOME nautilus 43.2
 16
 17 (org.gnome.Nautilus:1949): GLib-CRITICAL **: 17:54:47.325: g_hash_table_foreach: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed
 18 Fri Feb 21 05:54:47 PM EST 2025

%   line 12 is the ouput of the first "date" command
%   line 13 is a message emitted imediately from the invocation of "nautilus"
%   line 14 is a warning message emitted from the invocation of "nautilus"
%   line 15 is the requested "nautilus" version
%   line 17 appears to be a crital error message
%   line 18 is the output of the second "date" command

%   the timestamp prior to the invocation of "nautilus --version" and the
%   timestamp after the invocation of "nautilus --version" show an elapsed
%   time of 52 seconds which is too long and simplistically illistrates
%   the issue.  Though not obvious, the time lag occured between
%   steps 14 and 15.

 19 [batchusr@cgdebian12a]:/home/batchusr

The intended "ssh -X cgdebian12a nautilus" invocation in either a
wayland or X11 gnome environment results in the following:

  1 notable response lag times throughout
  2 the "nautilus" window does appear
  3 the window indicator in the lower right corner indicates loading
    with the circular indicator sputtering
  4 loading never completes and canceling the operation results in a
    "Folder is Empty" result