nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in PyObject_GetAttrString() when opening 'properties' window (with tracker-tags-tab extension installed)

[telewatho]

Binary package hint: nautilus

This happens pretty much every time i open a 'properties' window in a nautilus file manager window.

When i right click on file and choose 'properties', the file manager window always becomes non-responsive for a few seconds. Then about 80% of the time it crashes the whole nautilus process (which also clears the desktop). 20% of the time it actually opens the file properties window

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: nautilus
ProcCwd: /home/tim
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 PyObject_GetAttrString () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
 PyObject_HasAttrString () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
 ?? ()
 nautilus_property_page_provider_get_pages (
 append_extension_pages (window=0x98084c0)
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in PyObject_GetAttrString()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout dip disk fax floppy freevo fuse lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare scanner tape video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:PyObject_GetAttrString (v=0x0, name=0xb627322a "get_property_pages")
PyObject_HasAttrString (v=0x0,
nautilus_python_object_get_property_pages (
nautilus_property_page_provider_get_pages (
append_extension_pages (window=0x98084c0)

[telewatho (telewatho)]

***UPDATE:

Nautilus 2.26.2
Ubuntu Jaunty
python 2.6.2 (with 2.5 installed as well)

NOW CRASHES EVERY TIME I TRY TO OPEN PROPERTIES WINDOW

other dialogs within nautilus (eg the "about" window) still open correctly. However, this is very annoying as now I can't view properties of any file or folder without:
-running "sudo nautilus"
-then opening the properties window within the "sudo nautilus" window

I would appreciate any help or ideas

Thanks for everything

[Daniel (quite)]

I have the same crash, whenever I try to open the properties window
on any (it seems) file, directory, etc.

System is Karmic, recently upgraded from Jaunty. Python is 2.6.4-0ubuntu2.

Bringing up properties window in a sudo:ed Nautilus does indeed work.
As well, if I create a new user and log in, properties windows appears at
it should, without crashing. So, there are some particularities with my
settings/files in my personal account that causes the crash. Any ideas about
what files it could be? Anything Python-related? Just to work around the
bug without wiping my home-dir empty...

I am attaching, hopefully complete, gdb and valgrind logs.

[Adam Plumb (adamplumb)]

Do you know what python plugins you are using?

[telewatho (telewatho)]

removing the tracker-tags-tab extension

tracker-tags-tab.py

from

$HOME/.nautilus/python-extensions/

And restarting stops this problem. (this is also the reason sudo nautilus works, as root doesnt have the extension)

[telewatho (telewatho)]

Thanks for the idea, Adam.

Daniel, can you confirm this works?

Tracker does seem like a good program, tagging files and searching metadata seems a step in the right direction.

[Daniel (quite)]

Sorry, I currently don't have access to that system. My quick fix was to wipe out
the .nautilus directory, if I remember correctly. But I never had installed any
extensions...

[Adam Plumb (adamplumb)]

This may not actually be a tracker plugin bug. I'm the maintainer for nautilus-python and recently made a couple commits that may have fixed this issue. I'll be releasing a new version soon, but in the mean time you are welcome to test the code from git master.

[dino99 (9d9)]

This version is outdated and no more supported