Bug 89357 – Segementation Fault when starting nautilus

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Bug 89357 - Segementation Fault when starting nautilus


Summary:	Segementation Fault when starting nautilus


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	nautilus
Classification:	Core
Component:	Desktop
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other other

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

URL:
Whiteboard:

Duplicates:	89428 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2002-07-29 14:57 UTC by leslie
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.0

Attachments
a patch ... (1.50 KB, patch) 2002-07-31 08:25 UTC, Michael Meeks	none	Details \| Review

Description leslie 2002-07-29 16:46:32 UTC

Package: nautilus
Severity: major
Version: 2.0.2
Synopsis: Segementation Fault when starting nautilus
Bugzilla-Product: nautilus
Bugzilla-Component: Desktop
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.0.1)

Description:
Description of Problem: I am receiving a segm. fault anytime I try to
start nautilus.


Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Log into gnome 2.0 (latest snap-shot from today)
2. if nautilus does not start, start manually
3. Segmentation Fault follows shortly

Actual Results:
Segmentation Fault

Expected Results:
Beautiful Nautilus and my backgroup picture of me 7 week-old daughter
:=)

How often does this happen?
Ever since the last 2 dev-snap shots from Red-Carpet

Additional Information:
Snap shot received from RED-CARPET no longer than 4 days.



Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/nautilus'

[New Thread 1024 (LWP 1832)]
[New Thread 2049 (LWP 1868)]
[New Thread 1026 (LWP 1869)]
[New Thread 2051 (LWP 1870)]
[New Thread 3076 (LWP 1871)]
[New Thread 4101 (LWP 1874)]
[New Thread 5126 (LWP 1875)]
[New Thread 6151 (LWP 1876)]
0x420b4859 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6

+ Trace 25604

Thread 1 (Thread 1024 (LWP 1832))

#0 wait4
from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#3 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 620
#4 pthread_sighandler
from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 gnome_vfs_handle_do_truncate
at gnome-vfs-handle.c line 183
#7 gnome_vfs_truncate_handle_cancellable
at gnome-vfs-cancellable-ops.c line 222
#8 gnome_vfs_truncate_handle
at gnome-vfs-ops.c line 355
#9 ditem_save
at gnome-desktop-item.c line 3509
#10 gnome_desktop_item_save
at gnome-desktop-item.c line 755
#11 nautilus_link_desktop_file_local_create
at nautilus-link-desktop-file.c line 139
#12 nautilus_link_local_create
at nautilus-link.c line 114
#13 update_trash_link_and_delete_copies
at fm-desktop-icon-view.c line 1186
#14 fm_desktop_icon_view_init
at fm-desktop-icon-view.c line 678
#15 g_type_create_instance
at gtype.c line 1349
#16 g_object_constructor
at gobject.c line 797
#17 g_object_newv
at gobject.c line 695
#18 g_object_new_valist
at gobject.c line 734
#19 g_object_new
at gobject.c line 588
#20 create_object
at nautilus-application.c line 113
#21 _ORBIT_skel_small_Bonobo_GenericFactory_createObject
at Bonobo_GenericFactory-skels.c line 24
#22 ORBit_POAObject_invoke
at poa.c line 893
#23 ORBit_OAObject_invoke
at orbit-adaptor.c line 128
#24 ORBit_small_invoke_adaptor
at orbit-small.c line 799





------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-07-29 12:46 -------

The original reporter (leslie@abbeydrake.net) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.

Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-07-29 19:53:01 UTC

Michael, Dave? This is a new trace; I'm a little worried about new vfs
traces coming in at this point in the game.

Comment 2 Ben FrantzDale 2002-07-30 17:53:27 UTC

*** Bug 89428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Luis Villa 2002-07-30 19:15:23 UTC

Michael? I'm really worried about regression here...

Comment 4 Michael Meeks 2002-07-31 08:23:21 UTC

rather a trivial error in gnome-desktop I have a fix here.

Comment 5 Michael Meeks 2002-07-31 08:25:13 UTC

patch pending approval from Mark.

Comment 6 Michael Meeks 2002-07-31 08:25:45 UTC

Created attachment 10142 [details] [review]
a patch ...

Comment 7 Michael Meeks 2002-08-01 07:34:04 UTC

committed to HEAD gnome-desktop.