nautilus.so prevents gaim from starting on a read-only filesystem

[Marques Johansson]

Binary package hint: nautilus-sendto

I previously reported this bug with gaim, https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100235&aid=1609565&group_id=235 , but gaim developers sent me this way. The segfault occurs in save_online_buddies of nautilus.so when the filesystem is read-only.

: from my sf.net bug report

This happened after an error was detected and the filesystem was mounted read-only. Everytime I try to start gaim on the read-only filesystem it starts and after a second or two segfaults. The dump below seems to explain everything.

Gaim 2.0.0beta5
nautilus-sendto 0.8-2ubuntu1

mjohansson@bang:~$ gdb gaim
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gaim
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208994096 (LWP 8136)]
[New Thread -1238946928 (LWP 8163)]
[New Thread -1247339632 (LWP 8166)]
[New Thread -1247605872 (LWP 8169)]
[Thread -1247605872 (LWP 8169) exited]
[New Thread -1247605872 (LWP 8187)]
[Thread -1247605872 (LWP 8187) exited]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1208994096 (LWP 8136)]
0x4b44ebf1 in fwrite () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x4b44ebf1 in fwrite () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#1 0xb780d673 in save_online_buddies () from /usr/lib/gaim/nautilus.so
#2 0x4b76bcc6 in g_source_get_current_time () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3 0x4b76b6f2 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 0x4b76e6cf in g_main_context_check () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5 0x4b76ea79 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 0x4ad01574 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#7 0x080abd09 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x178
) at ../../gtk/gtkmain.c:800
(gdb) quit
The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431158

[Marques Johansson (marques)]

They have a patch available at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431158#c1

Including that patch in the Ubuntu version should close this bug. I've asked the upstream (via the bugzilla item above) when the patch will be included in a release.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the bug triage. I know they have a patch, I've attached it to the bug

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

nautilus-sendto (0.12-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Fix a crash in the Thunderbird plugin when
      gtk_entry_get_text returns NULL (LP: #68504)
    - Fix application name in the man page
    - Fix possible crashes when no Bluetooth adapters are available
      (LP: #98687)
    - Fix GAIM/Pidgin not starting up when the home directory is read-only
      (LP: #77819)
    - Some UI love to bring it closer to the HIG
    - Add Pidgin/libpurple support
    - Fix a typo that might make DiscoverDevices not work (Bluetooth)
    - Don't resolve Bluetooth device names, DiscoverDevices already does
      that for us
  * debian/patches/nautilus-sendto-0.10-pidgin.patch:
    - dropped, fixed with the new version
  * debian/patches/nautilus-sendto-0.7-thunderbird.patch:
    - updated

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:22:44 +0200