GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 408553
gnome-vfs-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
Last modified: 2018-08-17 13:52:38 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-vfs2/+bug/85477 "I had problem with the gnome-panel, i reloaded than gnome starts but gave a fault..before gnome wouldn't open ... Package: libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.17.91-0ubuntu1 ..." Debug backtrace for the crash:
+ Trace 111217
So, do we add a NULL check for activation_uri, or find out why we were passed a NULL activation_uri?
I had a similar problem in Debian 5 (Lenny) and it was preventing gnome sessions from starting at all. Also gnome applications depending on gnome-vfs-daemon wouldn't launch within a kde session. It turned out one /etc/fstab entry was causing the segfault: UUID=A86EF81A6EF7DECE windows ntfs noauto,user,umask=227 0 0 I'd used the entry to mount the file system without problems despite the mount point not being a full path. Changing 'windows' to '/mnt/windows' solved the issue and gnome sessions are working again. If a null check could be added I would welcome that as the cause of the gnome session failure wasn't immediately obvious. The original report was posted here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589088 thanks in anticipation,
gnome-vfs got deprecated in 2008. gnome-vfs is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes in 2011. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-vfs/commits/master gio (in glib) and gvfs are its successors. See https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch33.html and https://people.gnome.org/~gicmo/gio-migration-guide/ for porting info. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Feel free to open a task in GNOME Gitlab if the issue described in this task still applies to a recent + supported version of glib/gio/gvfs. Thanks!