Nautilus crashes trying to copy >4GB file to msdos fs

[Erik Nordström Andersen]

Nautilus crashes and reloads when trying to move (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V from one window
to another) a 9GB tar file to an msdosfs mounted external USB hd. Doing "cp
file.tar /media/usbhd/" exits after copying 4GB with the error (translated from
Danish) "Limit for file size exceeded".

Preferred behaviour would be for nautilus to catch this error and present it to
the user, instead of crashing.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Could you get a
backtrace of the crash with the libgnomevfs2-0-dbg nautilus-dbg packages
installed (you can get it from the bug-buddy dialog to send the bug upstream)?

[Erik Nordström Andersen (erik-erik-n-andersen)]

This is an updated Breezy

erik@fixie:~$ uname -a
Linux fixie 2.6.12-9-386 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
erik@fixie:~$ cp --version
cp (coreutils) 5.2.1
erik@fixie:~$ nautilus --version
Gnome nautilus 2.12.1

I haven't tried gdb before. I installed libgnomevfs2-0-dbg and nautilus-dbg.
Should I uninstall the normal nautilus package? I would expect a nautilus.core
file somewhere on my system after the crash, but I can find none. Is the
procedure to type "gdb nautilus" and wait for a crash? Typing "bt" in gdb just
returns "no stack".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

No need to uninstall the standard package. When nautilus crashes you should get
a bug-buddy dialog about this crash, it has a "send the bug" button and the next
page has the backtrace.
You can also use gdb:
- gnome-session-remove nautilus
- gdb nautilus
(gdb) run
... crash
(gdb) thread apply all bt

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

No reply, bug closed. Feel free to reopen with the reply to the asked questions
if you still have that issue

[Alex van Niel (alexvanniel)]

I am using Gutsy Gibbon with all updates applied and experienced the same crash as well. I will install gdb and post the log later on. It would indeed be better to have nautilus present the user with the message that a file of more then 4gb can not be copied to a fat partition instead of crashing and restarting.