nautilus crash changing permissions in root mode

[Anton Shaleyev]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When I change permissions in root mode (sudo nautilus) using Nautilus window "File properties, Permissions tab" the Nautilus do not reply. And console give me next report:
 (nautilus:6332): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strsplit: assertion `string != NULL' failed

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 30 00:32:16 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.20.0-0ubuntu7
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
ProcCwd: /home/anton
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux Enterprise 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Anton Shaleyev (tirion)]

Here in attachment.
I believe that i did this report correctly.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks, may you install the following packages and get a new trace? packages: nautilus-dbgsym, libglib2.0-0-dbgsym, libgtk2.0-0-dbgsym, libgnomevfs2-0-dbg, libgnomeui-0-dbgsym. thanks!.

seems similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494487.

[Anton Shaleyev (tirion)]

Here.
May be it similar. But what is strange that I have this problem only in Nautilus in root mode. In my user mode everything OK.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Indeed it matches http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494487 thanks.

[cuby (cuby)]

Nautilus crashes if, while running as root, you change the ownership or group of a folder/file.
The BIG PROBLEM is that if you try to change the user, it will be changed, nautilus crashes and the group remains unchanged. This is a major security concern a a great fault in consistency.

[cuby (cuby)]

>Nautilus crashes if, while running as root, you change the ownership or group of a folder/file.
>The BIG PROBLEM is that if you try to change the user, it will be changed, nautilus crashes and the group remains >unchanged. This is a major security concern a a great fault in consistency.

This happens in 8.04 beta.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you check if this is still an issue for you with the latest development version (Ubuntu 9.10)? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.