Bug 43133 – choosing gzip view kills Nautilus

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Bug 43133 - choosing gzip view kills Nautilus


Summary:	choosing gzip view kills Nautilus


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40289

Product:	nautilus
Classification:	Core
Component:	[obsolete] Views: Other
Version:	0.x.x [obsolete]
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	old
Assigned To:	Ian McKellar
QA Contact:	Nautilus Maintainers

URL:
Whiteboard:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2000-09-16 22:47 UTC by Will LaShell
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

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

Description Will LaShell 2001-09-10 00:40:02 UTC

To reproduce its easy, select a tarball, it currently loads up component "loser"
automagically, select gzip view from the dropdown and boom nautilus will die
with:

** CRITICAL **: file nautilus-directory.c: line 433
(nautilus_directory_find_file): assertion `name != NULL' fa
iled.

** CRITICAL **: file nautilus-file.c: line 123 (nautilus_file_new_from_name):
assertion `name != NULL' failed.

** ERROR **: file nautilus-file.c: line 3692 (nautilus_file_emit_changed):
assertion failed: (NAUTILUS_IS_FILE 
(file))
aborting...

--------backtrace when run --sync ---------
0x40792d21 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt

+ Trace 9642

#0 __kill
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 raise
at signals.c line 65
#2 abort
at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c line 88
#3 g_logv
#4 g_log
#5 nautilus_file_emit_changed
at nautilus-file.c line 3692
#6 nautilus_directory_emit_change_signals_deep
at nautilus-directory.c line 471
#7 nautilus_directory_emit_metadata_changed
at nautilus-directory.c line 487
#8 metafile_read_done
at nautilus-directory-async.c line 234
#9 metafile_read_failed
at nautilus-directory-async.c line 342
#10 metafile_read_done_callback
at nautilus-directory-async.c line 367
#11 read_file_failed
at nautilus-file-utilities.c line 591
#12 read_file_open_callback
at nautilus-file-utilities.c line 676
#13 dispatch_open_callback
at gnome-vfs-job.c line 272
#14 dispatch_job_callback
at gnome-vfs-job.c line 569
#15 g_io_unix_dispatch
at giounix.c line 135
#16 g_main_dispatch
at gmain.c line 656
#17 g_main_iterate
at gmain.c line 877
#18 g_main_run
at gmain.c line 935
#19 gtk_main
at gtkmain.c line 476
#20 bonobo_main
at bonobo-main.c line 372
#21 main
at nautilus-main.c line 201


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------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2000-09-18 12:19:56 ----

This is a feature that's not tested much, so it's not too surprising that it's
messed up.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 19:30:21 ----

Batch-assigning QA ownership of remaining bugs to eli@eazel.com



------- Additional Comments From yakk@yakk.net 2000-12-20 17:03:24 ----

Moving to my new Bugzilla account



------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2001-01-03 01:55:59 ----

Since the View as Gzip UI will be removed for 1.0, this bug should be post-1.0




------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:40 -------

Comment 1 John Fleck 2002-01-05 04:25:11 UTC

Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.

Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-31 22:41:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40289 ***