nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_prep_args()

[Alex Kras]

working with nfs

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.1.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-3.4-generic 3.0.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 5 11:01:36 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
ProcCmdline: nautilus -n
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x857526: rep movsl %ds:(%esi),%es:(%edi)
 PC (0x00857526) ok
 source "%ds:(%esi)" (0x0000007b) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%es:(%edi)" (0xbfdfeb2f) ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ffi_prep_args () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call_SYSV () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
 ffi_call () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in ffi_prep_args()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-27 (7 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __memcpy_ia32 () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/../memcpy.S:75
 ?? ()
 ffi_prep_args (stack=0xbfdfeab0 "0\202\263\b4\353\337\277\030\354\337\277\263AX", ecif=0xbfdfeaf0) at /usr/include/bits/string3.h:52
 ffi_call_SYSV () at ../src/x86/sysv.S:59
 ffi_call (cif=0xbfdfebe0, fn=0x8141d50 <eel_editable_label_move_cursor>, rvalue=0xbfdfeb90, avalue=0xbfdfeb30) at ../src/x86/ffi.c:303

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Could you please describe the steps to reproduce this crash ?

I get it while trying to rename a file with nautilus as described in bug 805783

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

I'm getting the same thing, the cause here is trying to drag and drop a file from one folder to another. Started with the update of nautilus a little while ago
(haven't tried reverting to check yet

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

reverting back to 3.1.2-0ubuntu2 allows D&D without incident

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

reassigning to glib, according to upstream the issue is coming from there, please do not forward it upstream for now since a new package is going to be uploaded to test if the issue is still reproducible with that newer version , thanks all!.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

should be fixed with http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=5e64717a5ffb61c51ca936d51d0d38e5abc08c3a which will be in the next upload

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package glib2.0 - 2.29.10-0ubuntu1

---------------
glib2.0 (2.29.10-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    - should fix nautilus segfault issues (lp: #805797)
    New features:
    - g_desktop_app_info_get_nodisplay: a function that is required
      to port gnome-menus to GDesktopAppInfo
    - g_hash_Table_iter_replace: new function to replace a value
      while iterating over a hash table
    - g_utf8_substring: convenience API to extract substrings from UTF-8 strings
    - g_action_group_add_entries: convenience API for creating lots
      of actions quickly
    - Use eventfd instead of pipes for waking up main contexts and
      for cancellation when available
    - GMatchInfo is now a refcounted boxed type
    API changes in GAction:
    - the 'set_state' entry in the GActionInterface vtable has been
      renamed to 'change_state
    - g_action_set_state has been renamed to g_action_change_state
    - the 'state' property has been changed to read-only
    - GSimpleAction can no longer be subclassed
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:11:11 +0200