Nautilus crashes when middle click on network bookmark

[J-P]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When navigating the filesystem with Nautilus, I middle clicked on a Samba bookmark to open it in a new tab. The tab appeared briefly then Nautilus crashed. This bookmark leads to an (currently) inaccessible machine, so this could have something to do with the problem?

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

apt-cache policy nautilus:
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 cdrom://Ubuntu 9.10 _Karmic Koala_ - Release amd64 (20091027.1) karmic/main Packages
        500 http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
AssertionMessage: ERROR:nautilus-file.c:656:nautilus_file_get_internal: assertion failed: (location != NULL)
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Nov 6 17:51:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: nautilus --sm-client-id 10af4795214d3b77124907166416742600000047290032 --sm-client-state-file /home/username/.config/session-state/nautilus-1249360752.desktop
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 *__GI_raise (sig=<value optimized out>)
 *__GI_abort () at abort.c:92
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr ()
 ?? ()
Title: nautilus assert failure: ERROR:nautilus-file.c:656:nautilus_file_get_internal: assertion failed: (location != NULL)
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, processing the crash report to get detailed information for the developers failed as the retracer did not generate a useful symbolic stack trace.
Please try to obtain a backtrace manually following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[J-P (jppelteret)]

How to reproduce the bug:

1. Add a nautilus bookmark to a share directory on another active PC (in this instance, a Windows PC)
2. Disconnect the network connection to make the link location inaccessible
3. Open a nautilus browser window (e.g. folder on the desktop)
4. Try to navigate to the now inactive Samba link made in step one using the middle mouse button to open it up in a new tab.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

the backtrace is broken, could you please install the nautilus, libgtk2, libglib2 dbgsym packages and get a new one? Thanks.

[Kelsey Sigurdur (kes)]

The bug doesn't appear to be limited to Samba bookmarks. Bookmarks pointing to unavailable FTP and SFTP services also cause nautilus to crash.

[Jan Nekvasil (jan-nekvasil)]

This bug is also not limited to _unavailable_ network folders only, for crash with samba shares is enough to don't access them for a while (connection timeout?) and then middleclick on them. Very annoying, especially when You are working files on LAN's samba shares all the day with often access pauses.

[jpfle (jpfle)]

I have this bug on Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1. To always reproduce it:

1) Open a FTP location. A link will automatically appear in the left panel of Nautilus.

2) Middle click on this link.

Actual result: Nautilus crashes. See the attached backtrace.

[jpfle (jpfle)]

Precision about comment #7: the FTP link that is middle clicked in the left panel of Nautilus is invalid. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/551032

[Marcus Carlson (0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu)]

Patch to not make nautilus crash on middle click invalid network share and also closes the newly created tab.