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Bug 97240 - Clicking on "Preferences" icon in the "start-here" folder causes nautilus to crash.
Clicking on "Preferences" icon in the "start-here" folder causes nautilus to ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94598
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
unspecified
Other other
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-10-30 01:20 UTC by chris.smith
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description chris.smith 2002-10-30 17:22:15 UTC 
Package: nautilus
Severity: normal
Version: 2.0.6
Synopsis: Clicking on "Preferences" icon in the "start-here" folder causes nautilus to crash.
Bugzilla-Product: nautilus
Bugzilla-Component: File and Folder Operations
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.0.3)

Description:
Description of Problem:
Pretty much what the title says.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Click on the "start here" folder on the Nautilus desktop (logged in
as a user)
2. Click on the "preferences" icon
3. watch it go boom.

Actual Results:
Nautilus crashes

Expected Results:
That the preferences application would open.

How often does this happen?
This is the first time... It's also the first time I've tried.

Additional Information:
I had just installed and done a software update.



Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/nautilus'

(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 8192 (LWP 2022)]
[New Thread 16385 (LWP 2030)]
[New Thread 8194 (LWP 2031)]
[New Thread 16387 (LWP 2032)]
[New Thread 24580 (LWP 2033)]
0x420ae169 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6

+ Trace 29644

Thread 1 (Thread 8192 (LWP 2022))

  • #0 wait4
    from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
  • #1 __DTOR_END__
    from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
  • #2 waitpid
    from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
  • #3 libgnomeui_module_info_get
    from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
  • #4 __pthread_sighandler
    from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
  • #5 <signal handler called>
  • #6 kill
    from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
  • #7 raise
    from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
  • #8 abort
    from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
  • #9 g_logv
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #10 g_log
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #11 gnome_vfs_monitor_callback
    from /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
  • #12 fam_callback
    from /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so
  • #13 g_io_unix_dispatch
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #14 g_main_dispatch
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #15 g_main_context_dispatch
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #16 g_main_context_iterate
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #17 g_main_loop_run
    from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
  • #18 gtk_main
    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #19 main
  • #20 __libc_start_main
    from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
  • #0 wait4
    from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-10-30 12:22 -------

The original reporter (chris.smith@xdrive.com) 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 David Fallon 2002-10-30 19:10:07 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94598 ***