nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in nautilus_drag_default_drop_action_for_icons()

[Wade Menard]

Happened while I had two windows open. I don't think I was actively doing anything. I had been dragging files between two windows and believe everything had been finished.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-2.16-generic 4.4.0
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Feb 6 07:37:53 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'default-folder-viewer' b"'list-view'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'940x889+821+84'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-zoom-level' b"'standard'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-05 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160204)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/nautilus --gapplication-service
ProcEnviron:
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x4ac4a4 <nautilus_drag_default_drop_action_for_icons+68>: mov (%r14),%rax
 PC (0x004ac4a4) ok
 source "(%r14)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 nautilus_drag_default_drop_action_for_icons (context=0x362b140, target_uri_string=0x30bf660 "file:///home/username", items=0x0, action=0x7ffc278aa564) at nautilus-dnd.c:459
 places_sidebar_drag_action_requested_cb (sidebar=<optimized out>, context=0x362b140, dest_file=0x35cff20, source_file_list=<optimized out>, user_data=<optimized out>) at nautilus-window.c:661
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in nautilus_drag_default_drop_action_for_icons()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Wade Menard (wade-ezri)]

It looks like this bug was fixed upstream in 3.18.1. https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=02af0763c53a77c23f7dac6ca8e9121ed4f293dd

Perhaps since we are sticking with 3.16 for the LTS this fix could be backported?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Indeed, thanks for the commit reference

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

(redhat bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269824)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu2

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nautilus (1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_dnd_segfault.patch:
    - don't segfault when dragging files from e.g file-roller to nautilus
      (lp: #1542633)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:23:01 +0100