Bug 654029 – nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_file_query_info()

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Bug 654029 - nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_file_query_info()


Summary:	nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_file_query_info()


Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Product:	nautilus
Classification:	Core
Component:	Crashers
Version:	3.1.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

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

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2011-07-05 16:32 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified:	2014-01-12 20:19 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	3.1/3.2

Description Pedro Villavicencio 2011-07-05 16:32:18 UTC

this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/804330

"Any attempt to open nautilus as root fails, common message is
(nautilus:3298): DEBUG: Syncdaemon not running, waiting for it to start in NameOwnerChanged
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension

(nautilus:3298): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_has_prefix: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(nautilus:3298): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_has_prefix: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

"

".

+ Trace 227668

Thread 1 (Thread 5301)

#0 __strcmp_ia32
at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/../strcmp.S line 40
#1 _g_local_file_info_get
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.8/./gio/glocalfileinfo.c line 1609
#2 g_local_file_query_info
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.8/./gio/glocalfile.c line 1188
#3 g_file_query_info
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.8/./gio/gfile.c line 1106
#4 query_info_async_thread
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.8/./gio/gfile.c line 4830
#5 run_in_thread
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.8/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 842
#6 io_job_thread
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.8/./gio/gioscheduler.c line 180
#7 g_thread_pool_thread_proxy
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.8/./glib/gthreadpool.c line 319
#8 g_thread_create_proxy
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.29.8/./glib/gthread.c line 1954
#9 start_thread
at pthread_create.c line 304
#10 clone
at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S line 130

Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2014-01-12 16:19:35 UTC

Hi there, is this still a problem with the latest version?

Comment 2 António Fernandes 2014-01-12 20:19:50 UTC

Running nautilus as root is not supported[*], so I'm marking this as RESOLVED.


[*] As said bug 628729 comment 1 and bug 654184 comment 1.