#664583 nautilus crashes when selecting multiple files

Package:
nautilus
Source:
nautilus
Description:
file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
Submitter:
"John M."
Date:
2014-07-22 20:30:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#664583#5
Date:
2012-03-19 02:31:02 UTC
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Selecting multiple files in nautilus triggers a crash, but only after
nautilus has been running for a while.  Uninstalling all the tracker
packages (except for sparql), and/or upgrading to nautilus 3.2.1-3 from
Debian unstable doesn't change anything ---i.e., nautilus still crashes
for the same reason.

The backtrace from gdb is attached.  The system information follows.
#664583#10
Date:
2012-03-19 06:41:19 UTC
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Hi,

Le dimanche 18 mars 2012 à 20:31 -0600, John M. a écrit :

Could you please try again with libgtk-3-0-dbg installed?

Thanks,
#664583#15
Date:
2012-03-23 15:06:56 UTC
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It took longer this time (it seemed like libgtk-3.0-dbg almost fixed
something).

In this case, I've got the segfault by pressing the Reload button during
a nautilus search.  The file selected in the search results, when I
pressed the Reload button, had already been moved to trash (using
another instance of Nautilus).

The following might be relevant... or may not:
* I dragged/dropped some avi files from nautilus to xine, and it seems
that gdb got some messages from xine's driver.
* Since Xorg crashes randomly with the latest NVIDIA (bug #661253), I
downgraded and locked/pinned nvidia-glx and related packages.
#664583#20
Date:
2012-03-23 18:02:47 UTC
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One more backtrace, obtained while selecting multiple files in nautilus
(no search involved).
#664583#25
Date:
2014-07-21 18:08:07 UTC
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Hey John,

this is an old bug.

Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer nautilus version
like 3.4.2-1+build1 or 3.8.2-3 ?

thanks
regards
Pedro
#664583#30
Date:
2014-07-22 20:26:46 UTC
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Hi,

It's been more than two years, so I kind of forgot about reporting what
fixed the bug for me.

I had /tmp mounted in RAM through fstab.  It seems that nautilus (gvfs?)
didn't like that.  Once I removed the line from fstab, the crash caused
by selecting multiple files went away.