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Bug 170922 - sniffing mime-type for /proc/kmsg blocks
sniffing mime-type for /proc/kmsg blocks
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Async operations
2.14.x
Other Linux
: High major
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-19 18:39 UTC by lito steel
Modified: 2008-09-06 19:10 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14



Description lito steel 2005-03-19 18:39:26 UTC
Version details: compiled inhouse 
Distribution/Version: Mandrake 9.1 updated by hand

I don't know exactly, just login as root an everything goes fine until you
access the /proc folder...
I use another graphical browsers and they can open /proc folder...
(sorry for my english)
Using Mandrake 9.1 updated by hand... many patches and programs compiled not
RPMS neither other PACKAGES...

Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Gcc 3.2.2
libc-2.3.1
Athlon AMD 1.3mhz processor
256 Mb RAM
/dev/hda1 is ext3
using: usbdevfs
using: devpts
using: ide-scsi for CDRW device
Thanks in advances, bye!
Comment 1 lito steel 2005-03-19 18:41:26 UTC
Everything freezes i forgot to comment...
No mouse, keyboard, nothing need to reboot by hand...
Comment 2 Martin Wehner 2005-04-03 18:18:43 UTC
I can actually reproduce this, but it's an issue with gnome-vfs: It hangs on
sniffing the mime type for /proc/kmsg. Reading that file blocks, hanging
nautilus (and gnomevfs-ls) indefinitly. Only root has read access to kmsg, so it
doesn't happen for non-root users.
Comment 3 lito steel 2005-04-04 19:08:57 UTC
Using kernel 2.6.11 now, and Nautilus don't crash inmediately but when you
open another Folder and press Ctrl+R to update its view...
It can be reproduced easy.. least dont't crash if you don't update manually 
the Nautilus View as Icons...
What can we do?
Comment 4 Christian Neumair 2005-05-10 21:31:44 UTC
Note that this can lockup can be reproduced using sudo gnomevfs-info /proc/kmsg.
Comment 5 Christian Kellner 2005-05-11 00:35:04 UTC
Well it's definately the mime sniffing. So the question here is if we wanna try
to make gnome_vfs_get_file_mime_type_internal not block forever, which I think
is a good idea anyway. I will look into this tomorrow. Thanks
Comment 6 Christian Kellner 2005-05-11 00:54:29 UTC
Ok I got two possible solutions. Fixing it tomorrow!
Comment 7 Luis Villa 2005-07-10 04:58:30 UTC
Did you fix this and forget to close the bug, gicmo?
Comment 8 Sebastien Bacher 2006-05-08 13:32:06 UTC
Ubuntu bug about that: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/43346

"cant enter /proc as root (nautilus)

/proc appears to be empty when trying to see it with sudo nautilus

as a user everything is normal
..."
Comment 9 André Klapper 2008-09-06 19:10:29 UTC
gnome-vfs has been deprecated and superseded by gio/gvfs since GNOME 2.22, hence mass-closing many of the gnome-vfs requests/bug reports. This means that gnome-vfs is NOT actively maintained anymore, however patches are still welcome.

If your reported issue is still valid for gio/gvfs, please feel free to file a bug report against glib/gio or gvfs.

@Bugzilla mail recipients: query for gnome-vfs-mass-close to get rid of these notification emails all together.


General further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS 
Reasons behind this decision are listed at http://www.mail-archive.com/gnome-vfs-list@gnome.org/msg00899.html