Bug 515822 – nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV

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Bug 515822 - nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV


Summary:	nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	nautilus
Classification:	Core
Component:	[obsolete] GIO
Version:	2.21.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

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

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2008-02-11 17:32 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified:	2008-02-25 16:46 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.21/2.22

Description Pedro Villavicencio 2008-02-11 17:32:55 UTC

This bug has been reported here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/190996

"nautilus try to start a number of times at startup and fails.witch this crashreport"

".

+ Trace 188850

Thread 1 (process 6076)

#0 compare_by_display_name
at nautilus-file.c line 2178
#1 nautilus_file_compare_for_sort
at nautilus-file.c line 2508
#2 fm_icon_view_compare_files
at fm-icon-view.c line 1970
#3 compare_files
at fm-icon-view.c line 1982
#4 compare_files_cover
at fm-directory-view.c line 2551
#5 g_list_sort_real
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/glib/glist.c line 583
#6 g_list_sort_real
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/glib/glist.c line 629
#7 g_list_sort_real
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/glib/glist.c line 629
#8 sort_files
at fm-directory-view.c line 2558
#9 process_new_files
at fm-directory-view.c line 2636
#10 done_loading_callback
at fm-directory-view.c line 3030
#11 IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gmarshal.c line 77
#12 IA__g_closure_invoke
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gclosure.c line 490
#13 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gsignal.c line 2440
#14 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gsignal.c line 2199
#15 IA__g_signal_emit
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gsignal.c line 2243
#16 nautilus_directory_emit_done_loading
at nautilus-directory.c line 800
#17 done_loading_callback
at nautilus-desktop-directory.c line 441
#18 IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gmarshal.c line 77
#19 IA__g_closure_invoke
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gclosure.c line 490
#20 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gsignal.c line 2440
#21 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gsignal.c line 2199
#22 IA__g_signal_emit
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gobject/gsignal.c line 2243
#23 nautilus_directory_emit_done_loading
at nautilus-directory.c line 800
#24 dequeue_pending_idle_callback
at nautilus-directory-async.c line 922
#25 directory_load_done
at nautilus-directory-async.c line 1054
#26 more_files_callback
at nautilus-directory-async.c line 2104
#27 next_async_callback_wrapper
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gio/gfileenumerator.c line 244
#28 IA__g_simple_async_result_complete
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 553
#29 complete_in_idle_cb
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 563
#30 g_idle_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/glib/gmain.c line 4142
#31 IA__g_main_context_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/glib/gmain.c line 2064
#32 g_main_context_iterate
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/glib/gmain.c line 2697
#33 IA__g_main_loop_run
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.15.4/glib/gmain.c line 2905
#34 IA__gtk_main
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.12.7/gtk/gtkmain.c line 1163
#35 main
at nautilus-main.c line 572
#36 __libc_start_main
from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#37 _start

Comment 1 Mikael Andersson 2008-02-13 08:04:34 UTC

 MickeA59 wrote 11 hours ago: (permalink)

Intresting , seems to be a rights problem .. running in sudo shows the desktop witch icons dor mounted discs(for root user but anyway)
and nautilus doesnt crash.

micke@micke-desktop:~$ sudo nautilus
seahorse nautilus module initialized
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
ALSA lib setup.c:96:(snd_sctl_install) Cannot lock ctl elem
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1286:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'cards.EMU10K1.pcm.surround71.0:CARD=0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3510:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3982:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround71:0

** (nautilus:7282): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
 Matt Perry wrote 5 hours ago: (permalink)

For the record, I experienced this exact symptom. It appears to be a permissions issue since there was a *.desktop file owned by root in ~/Desktop. Removing this file fixed the bug.

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2008-02-19 10:07:17 UTC

Aha. Maybe its the no-permissions-to-read-desktop-file issue i recently fixed.

Can you try this fix (in current svn):

2008-02-18  Alexander Larsson  <alexl@redhat.com>

        * libnautilus-private/nautilus-directory-async.c:
        (link_info_nautilus_link_read_callback):
	Avoid free of random memory if desktop file reading
	failed.

Comment 3 Mikael Andersson 2008-02-20 11:39:19 UTC

Hi !! Unfortunatly when i understood the rights problem i discarded the current user -account and created a new one with admin rights and everything worked.
Sorry

Comment 4 Christian Neumair 2008-02-25 16:46:27 UTC

Closing, Alex is probably right.

best regards,
 Christian