Re: nautilus slow start up with external drives

On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 12:04:33PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 09:26:14AM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
> > > Since moving from F40 to F44, I've seen that there is now an approximately
> > > 4 second delay for nautilus to start up whenever there is an external USB
> > > drive plugged into my laptop.
> > > 
> > > Any idea how to stop this?
> > 
> > Since the other suggestions have not fixed the start up time;
> > I would run nautilus under strace and see where it gets stuck.
> 
> It spends 2.04 seconds waiting while opening /dev/dri/renderD129. 

A final update on this. I blacklisted the noveau drivers so that the
built-in intel graphics was used instead of the NVIDIA one, and the
Nautilus startup delay has gone away. There was also a ~2s delay in
youtube videos switching to/from/between adverts, and that delay has also
gone away.
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