Firefox crash: Segmentation fault in g_slice_alloc () on reopening file dialogs or confirming save dialogs

[Severin H]

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.10 on Ubuntu 8.04 amd64.

- On opening a save dialog and hitting the "Save" button, Firefox crashes.
- On opening any file dialog, closing it using "Cancel" and opening another file dialog, Firefox crashes.

[Severin H (severinh)]

As it's a reproducable crash, I was able to backtrace it.

[Severin H (severinh)]

The the "File" -> "Save Page as" dialog is affected as well.

[Severin H (severinh)]

Strange. As it seems, it doesn't matter which kind of file dialog it is.

Updated bug description...

[Severin H (severinh)]

Now it gets really strange. As it seems, Firefox isn't to blame for the crashes, as these crashes happen in every application. This problem must have been introduced in a recent Hardy update. We need to move this bug to the right package, as it's a GNOME/GTK2 problem of whatever. Any suggestions?

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Severin, how else have you been able to reproduce this bug? I've only seen it in Firefox 2 and 3.

[Severin H (severinh)]

I was able to reproduce these crashes (opening file dialog, closing it and open it again) in OpenOffice.org, Homebank, Anjuta, Gedit, etc. so it's definitely a GNOME/GVFS related problem as it wasn't reproducible in Amarok which is a KDE application.

I've filed another bug about the same issue for gedit, but it must be caused by the same bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/187766 This one has been moved upstream.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Yeah, definitely a bigger problem there. I too was able to reproduce this.

[pvdeynse (vandeynse)]

sorry if i'm wrong, but this bug is solved with the software update of today:

Commit Log for Wed Feb 13 09:15:20 2008

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gvfs (0.1.7-0ubuntu1) to 0.1.7-0ubuntu2
gvfs-backends (0.1.7-0ubuntu1) to 0.1.7-0ubuntu2
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libgvfscommon0 (0.1.7-0ubuntu1) to 0.1.7-0ubuntu2
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[dustingram (dustin-ingram)]

Disagree, I just started having this problem in the last week. This affects any save/open file dialog, but not regular Nautilus file browsing for me.