Bug 79745 – Select CNN.com news crashes nautilus

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Bug 79745 - Select CNN.com news crashes nautilus


Summary:	Select CNN.com news crashes nautilus


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	nautilus
Classification:	Core
Component:	[obsolete] Views: Other
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other other

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	1.1.x
Assigned To:	Nautilus Maintainers
QA Contact:	Nautilus Maintainers

URL:
Whiteboard:

Duplicates:	81094 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2002-04-24 17:31 UTC by Will Backman
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	Old
GNOME version:	---

Attachments
Patch to fix it (768 bytes, patch) 2002-05-09 20:19 UTC, Damon Chaplin	none	Details \| Review

Description Will Backman 2002-04-24 14:38:25 UTC

Package: nautilus
Severity: normal
Version: 1.1.13
Synopsis: Select CNN.com news crashes nautilus
Bugzilla-Product: nautilus
Bugzilla-Component: Sidebar Panel: (Other)

Description:
whole app does not crash.  Recovers, but does not display the news.



Debugging Information:

[New Thread 1024 (LWP 4126)]
[New Thread 2049 (LWP 4127)]
[New Thread 1026 (LWP 4128)]
[New Thread 2051 (LWP 4129)]
0x4085a319 in __wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6

+ Trace 21260

Thread 1 (Thread 1024 (LWP 4126))

#0 __wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
at wrapsyscall.c line 172
#3 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 593
#4 pthread_sighandler
at signals.c line 97
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 my_strnlen
at nautilus-text-view.c line 89
#7 read_file_callback
at nautilus-text-view.c line 122
#8 read_file_succeeded
at eel-vfs-extensions.c line 159
#9 dispatch_read_callback
at gnome-vfs-job.c line 237
#10 dispatch_job_callback
at gnome-vfs-job.c line 562
#11 g_idle_dispatch
at gmain.c line 3129
#12 g_main_dispatch
at gmain.c line 1617
#13 g_main_context_dispatch
at gmain.c line 2161
#14 g_main_context_iterate
at gmain.c line 2242
#15 g_main_loop_run
at gmain.c line 2462
#16 gtk_main
at gtkmain.c line 936
#17 nautilus_view_standard_main_multi
at nautilus-view-standard-main.c line 229
#18 nautilus_view_standard_main
at nautilus-view-standard-main.c line 312
#19 main
at nautilus-text-view.c line 251
#20 __libc_start_main
at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c line 129
#0 __wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#0 __wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
at wrapsyscall.c line 172
#3 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 593
#4 pthread_sighandler
at signals.c line 97
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 my_strnlen
at nautilus-text-view.c line 89
#7 read_file_callback
at nautilus-text-view.c line 122





------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-04-24 10:38 -------

Unknown version 1.1.x in product nautilus. Setting version to the default, "unspecified".
The original reporter (whb@ceimaine.org) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.

Comment 1 Ben FrantzDale 2002-05-02 22:34:08 UTC

I get the same crash.

Comment 2 John Fleck 2002-05-08 02:36:28 UTC

*** Bug 81094 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Damon Chaplin 2002-05-09 19:53:49 UTC

Looks like gnome-vfs returns NULL for the contents when the file
has zero length. And nautilus doesn't cope well with that - it expects
some kind of string.

You can reproduce this easily by creating an empty .txt file and
trying to view it in nautilus. It isn't a news sidebar bug, it is
a text view bug.

I'll try to create a fix in a sec.

Comment 4 Damon Chaplin 2002-05-09 20:19:15 UTC

Created attachment 8329 [details] [review]
Patch to fix it

Comment 5 Alexander Larsson 2002-05-09 20:44:04 UTC

Looks good. Please commit.

Comment 6 Damon Chaplin 2002-05-09 20:53:14 UTC

thanks. committed.