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Bug 121771 - Nautilus crashes at startup if show_desktop is not set
Nautilus crashes at startup if show_desktop is not set
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 74734
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other other
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-08 18:02 UTC by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Theppitak Karoonboonyanan 2003-09-08 18:08:23 UTC 
Distribution: Debian testing/unstable
Package: nautilus
Severity: normal
Version: GNOME2.3.7 2.3.9
Gnome-Distributor: GARNOME
Synopsis: Nautilus crashes at startup if show_desktop is not set
Bugzilla-Product: nautilus
Bugzilla-Component: general
Bugzilla-Version: 2.3.9
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.3.7)
Description:
Description of the crash:

When the gconf entry /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop
is not set, nautilus always crashes when login gnome.


Steps to reproduce the crash:
1. clear /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop gconf entry
2. log out
3. log in gnome-session

Expected Results:
GNOME session starts successfully without nautilus on desktop
background.

How often does this happen?
Whenever show_desktop is cleared.

Additional Information:



Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/home/thep/garnome23/bin/nautilus'

[New Thread 16384 (LWP 8650)]
[New Thread 32769 (LWP 8667)]
[New Thread 16386 (LWP 8668)]
[New Thread 32771 (LWP 8669)]
0x40a8c40a in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0

+ Trace 40041

Thread 1 (Thread 16384 (LWP 8650))

  • #0 waitpid
    from /lib/libpthread.so.0
  • #1 libgnomeui_segv_handle
    at gnome-ui-init.c line 738
  • #2 __pthread_sighandler
    from /lib/libpthread.so.0
  • #3 <signal handler called>
  • #4 g_logv
    at gmessages.c line 513
  • #5 g_log
    at gmessages.c line 528
  • #6 die_on_failed_activation
    at nautilus-directory-metafile.c line 90
  • #7 get_factory
    at nautilus-directory-metafile.c line 104
  • #8 open_metafile
    at nautilus-directory-metafile.c line 127
  • #9 get_metafile
    at nautilus-directory-metafile.c line 151
  • #10 nautilus_directory_register_metadata_monitor
    at nautilus-directory-metafile.c line 529
  • #11 nautilus_directory_monitor_add_internal
    at nautilus-directory-async.c line 658
  • #12 vfs_file_monitor_add
    at nautilus-vfs-directory.c line 105
  • #13 nautilus_directory_file_monitor_add
    at nautilus-directory.c line 1574
  • #14 monitor_add_directory
    at nautilus-merged-directory.c line 435
  • #15 g_hash_table_foreach
    at ghash.c line 559
  • #16 merged_add_real_directory
    at nautilus-merged-directory.c line 467
  • #17 g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__POINTER
    at gmarshal.c line 601
  • #18 g_type_class_meta_marshal
    at gclosure.c line 514
  • #19 g_closure_invoke
    at gclosure.c line 437
  • #20 signal_emit_unlocked_R
    at gsignal.c line 2860
  • #21 g_signal_emit_valist
    at gsignal.c line 2554
  • #22 g_signal_emit
    at gsignal.c line 2612
  • #23 nautilus_merged_directory_add_real_directory
    at nautilus-merged-directory.c line 491
  • #24 find_directory_callback
    at nautilus-trash-directory.c line 127
  • #25 dispatch_find_directory_callback
    at gnome-vfs-job.c line 284
  • #26 dispatch_job_callback
    at gnome-vfs-job.c line 584
  • #27 g_idle_dispatch
    at gmain.c line 3272
  • #28 g_main_dispatch
    at gmain.c line 1751
  • #29 g_main_context_dispatch
    at gmain.c line 2299
  • #30 g_main_context_iterate
    at gmain.c line 2380
  • #31 g_main_context_iteration
    at gmain.c line 2439
  • #32 _gnome_vfs_thread_backend_shutdown
    at gnome-vfs-job-slave.c line 143
  • #33 gnome_vfs_shutdown
    at gnome-vfs-init.c line 177
  • #34 main
    at nautilus-main.c line 287
  • #0 waitpid
    from /lib/libpthread.so.0 




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-09-08 14:08 -------

Unknown version 2.3.9 in product nautilus. Setting version to the default, "unspecified".
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Comment 1 mwehner 2003-09-18 06:53:10 UTC 
This is a dup of bug #74374.
Comment 2 Luis Villa 2003-09-25 12:04:25 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74734 ***