Bug 154569 – crash when trying to associate an app for "application/octet-stream" without extension

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Bug 154569 - crash when trying to associate an app for "application/octet-stream" without extension


Summary:	crash when trying to associate an app for "application/octet-stream" without ...


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	eel
Classification:	Deprecated
Component:	general
Version:	2.8.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nautilus Maintainers
QA Contact:	Nautilus Maintainers

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2004-10-05 14:46 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.7/2.8

Description Sebastien Bacher 2004-10-05 14:46:07 UTC

The crash happens in nautilus:
* cd /tmp
* touch test
* nautilus ./
* right click on test, open with -> gedit

it crashes with some error in the console:
(nautilus:3283): Eel-WARNING **: No extension, not implemented yet

(nautilus:3283): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file gnome-vfs-mime-handlers.c: line
551 (gnome_vfs_mime_get_all_applications): assertion `mime_type != NULL' failed


Apparently the problem is due to this part of the code:

eel-mime-application-chooser.c:465
if (!extension) {
   g_warning ("No extension, not implemented yet");
   return FALSE;
}

According to the backtrace mime_type is null, which is the problem

Backtrace was generated from '/opt/gnome29/bin/nautilus'

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1225238816 (LWP 21124)]
[New Thread -1248531536 (LWP 5171)]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1225238816 (LWP 21124)]
[New Thread -1248531536 (LWP 5171)]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1225238816 (LWP 21124)]
[New Thread -1248531536 (LWP 5171)]
[New Thread -1239708752 (LWP 21167)]
[New Thread -1239446608 (LWP 21166)]
[New Thread -1239184464 (LWP 21165)]
[New Thread -1238922320 (LWP 21164)]
[New Thread -1238660176 (LWP 21163)]
[New Thread -1238398032 (LWP 21162)]
[New Thread -1238135888 (LWP 21161)]
[New Thread -1237873744 (LWP 21160)]
[New Thread -1237611600 (LWP 21159)]
[New Thread -1229177936 (LWP 21155)]
0xb73b3431 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0

+ Trace 50783

Thread 1 (Thread -1225238816 (LWP 21124))

#0 __waitpid_nocancel
from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
#1 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 741
#2 <signal handler called>
#3 IA__g_str_hash
at gstring.c line 77
#4 IA__g_hash_table_lookup
at ghash.c line 193
#5 gnome_vfs_mime_get_default_desktop_entry
at gnome-vfs-mime-info-cache.c line 786
#6 gnome_vfs_mime_get_default_application
at gnome-vfs-mime-handlers.c line 245
#7 refresh_model
at eel-mime-application-chooser.c line 387
#8 IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID
at gmarshal.c line 77
#9 IA__g_closure_invoke
at gclosure.c line 437
#10 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at gsignal.c line 2436
#11 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
at gsignal.c line 2195
#12 IA__g_signal_emit
at gsignal.c line 2239
#13 _gnome_vfs_mime_monitor_emit_data_changed
at gnome-vfs-mime-monitor.c line 200
#14 gnome_vfs_mime_info_reload
at gnome-vfs-mime-info.c line 229
#15 gnome_vfs_mime_reload
at gnome-vfs-mime.c line 911
#16 mime_update_program_done
at eel-mime-extensions.c line 166
#17 g_child_watch_dispatch
at gmain.c line 3542
#18 g_main_dispatch
at gmain.c line 1943
#19 IA__g_main_context_dispatch
at gmain.c line 2493
#20 g_main_context_iterate
at gmain.c line 2574
#21 IA__g_main_loop_run
at gmain.c line 2778
#22 IA__gtk_main
at gtkmain.c line 914
#23 main
at nautilus-main.c line 332
#0 __waitpid_nocancel
from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0

Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2004-11-09 03:52:18 UTC

Appears to be a unique stack trace.  I'm adding the STACKTRACE keyword and
setting other fields appropriately (I'm assuming you're using Gnome 2.8.x, but
let me know if that's not right)...

Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2004-12-02 15:29:38 UTC

doesn't crash with current versions