Bug 564530 – Nautilus crashes when desktop icon is renamed to match an icon selected in Trash

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Bug 564530 - Nautilus crashes when desktop icon is renamed to match an icon selected in Trash


Summary:	Nautilus crashes when desktop icon is renamed to match an icon selected in Trash


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	nautilus
Classification:	Core
Component:	File and Folder Operations
Version:	2.30.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nautilus Maintainers
QA Contact:	Nautilus Maintainers

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2008-12-14 22:24 UTC by Splex
Modified:	2017-07-16 12:41 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.29/2.30

Description Splex 2008-12-14 22:24:54 UTC

Steps to reproduce:
1. create an empty file on desktop named 'test' and delete it so that it goes to trash.
2. create a new file on desktop with any name other than 'test' and select it.
3. open trash either via the trash applet or through 'places'->'Home Folder'->'Trash'.
4. Select the deleted file 'test'. leave the window Trash window open.
4. Select the file on the desktop from step 2. Rename it to 'test'.
5. Nautilus will segfault.

Stack trace:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f42a5d76780 (LWP 17849)]
0x00000000004c9bd2 in nautilus_file_clear_info (file=0x7f4294045310) at nautilus-file.c:313
313	nautilus-file.c: No such file or directory.
	in nautilus-file.c
(gdb) thread apply all bt

+ Trace 210802

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f42a5d76780 (LWP 17849))

#0 nautilus_file_clear_info
at nautilus-file.c line 313
#1 rename_get_info_callback
at nautilus-file.c line 1235
#2 complete_in_idle_cb
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.18.2/gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 564
#3 IA__g_main_context_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.18.2/glib/gmain.c line 2144
#4 g_main_context_iterate
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.18.2/glib/gmain.c line 2778
#5 IA__g_main_loop_run
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.18.2/glib/gmain.c line 2986
#6 IA__gtk_main
at /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.14.4/gtk/gtkmain.c line 1200
#7 main
at nautilus-main.c line 596

Continuing.

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

Other information:
Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
2.6.27-10-generic x86_64

Comment 1 lexual 2008-12-15 11:08:16 UTC

confirming on fedora 10

Comment 2 palfrey 2008-12-15 11:42:32 UTC

Just reproduced locally (customised Ubuntu/Debian system). Part of the 'bt full' output:

+ Trace 210819

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb69c16c0 (LWP 8584))

#0 nautilus_file_clear_info
at nautilus-file.c line 313
#1 nautilus_file_mark_gone
at nautilus-file.c line 6308
#2 rename_get_info_callback
at nautilus-file.c line 1227
#3 IA__g_simple_async_result_complete
at /data/tparker/builder/sources/glib2.0_2.18.1-1/gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 554

Comment 3 Vish 2010-07-04 20:41:52 UTC

Do you still have this problem with an up to date version of nautilus?

Comment 4 Splex 2010-07-04 21:43:51 UTC

I just tried on my Arch64 box:
Kernel: 2.6.34
Nautilus 2.30.2

The bug still exists.

Comment 5 Splex 2010-07-04 21:46:19 UTC

Correction, Nautilus 2.30.1

Comment 6 Sebastien Bacher 2012-03-12 21:43:58 UTC

The issue seems to still be there on 3.3.91: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/952974

Comment 7 Alexandre Franke 2016-12-04 22:51:39 UTC

Does this still happen with a more recent version (3.20 or newer)?

Does it happen only on the desktop?

Comment 8 clobrano 2017-07-10 14:59:01 UTC

I could not reproduce this behavior anymore with Ubuntu 16.04 (and Nautilus 3.14.3), mostly because it seems to be impossible to copy the filename of an item in Trash.