Hej, I noticed an odd problem with my Gnome search recently. That thing that starts searching when the “super-key” is pressed (or the smart corner is triggered). When I start typing some text Gnome starts searching in all kinds of corners of the PC.
That is until my NAS system is not responding. It’s automounted to ~/NAS/ and when that remote box is busy I get a complete freeze of my desktop. As in no HID device has any effect. Just seeing occasional disk activity (blinky LED) but that’s it.
This takes about 5 minutes before it recovers. Only to start again on the next key stroke!
I guess some search provider checks the $HOME folder and waits for a timeout on the unresponsive cifs share. I want to know which one that is and if I can persuade it to search on local fs only.
Any pointers?
I’ve noticed the same thing with my NFS mount. Every now and then, the whole desktop freezes for anywhere between 5 and 30 seconds, even though the NFS server, which is on the local network, is accessible and running fine.
Mine is really down. Poking that server a lot recently xD