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Bug 552488 - thumbs.db in a windows share crashes gnome-vfs
thumbs.db in a windows share crashes gnome-vfs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 512555
Product: libgnomeui
Classification: Deprecated
Component: file-chooser
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-09-16 12:16 UTC by tim
Modified: 2008-09-21 22:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description tim 2008-09-16 12:16:28 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Mount a windows share which has a thumbs.db in it (created from Windows explorer)
2. Use a gnome application such as Evolution; go to an open file dialog such as attaching a file to an email, and browse to a folder containing thumbs.db
3. Crash of the application (Evolutoin, for example)


Stack trace:
messages.log 
indicates an error: 
Sep  8 16:30:27 u400 kernel: [ 2476.308768] evolution[4153]: segfault at 
0 ip b3ab1148 sp bfb88e20 error 4 in libgnome-vfs.so[b3aac000+a000]


the backtrace:


Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

+ Trace 206834

Thread 3060397856 (LWP 7978)

  • #0 is_desktop_file
    at gtkfilesystemgnomevfs.c line 965
  • #1 info_from_vfs_info
    at gtkfilesystemgnomevfs.c line 3055
  • #2 gtk_file_folder_get_info
    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #3 ??
    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
  • #4 ??
  • #5 ??
  • #6 ?? 



Other information:
This is reproducible in Debian Lenny and Debian Sid, both on shares from an XP Professional desktop, and shares from Small Business Server. 

It is filed here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498212
Comment 1 Kjartan Maraas 2008-09-17 19:35:17 UTC 
I think I've seen this before too. The thing is though that the gnome-vfs backend for the file chooser is gone from 2.24.x so this will probably not be followed up on...
Comment 2 André Klapper 2008-09-21 22:20:25 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 512555 ***