nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_utf8_validate()

[David Planella]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Using a Macedonian locale Nautilus crashes on drag and drop operations. This
might be a localization bug, but I'm reporting it against nautilus, since it
seems it is there where it can be reproduced.

Here are the steps to reproduce this bug:
1. When logging in, select Macedonian as language (locale)
2. Open Nautilus
3. Select ONLY one file or folder from your home folder and try to copy it to
another folder by using drag & drop
4. When you release the mouse button, Nautilus crashes and the icons on the
desktop are not shown

Note: I'm told by the Macedonian translators that there was a similar bug in
the past, which was fixed at some point, but on a quick search I could not find
it. Apparently Nautilus was crashing when coping a single file with (Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V).

This also looks similar to bug 213867

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Nov 6 15:04:08 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: nautilus --no-desktop /home/username
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=mk_MK.UTF-8
 LANG=mk_MK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x91b810 <g_utf8_validate+464>: cmpb $0x0,(%ecx)
 PC (0x0091b810) ok
 source "$0x0" ok
 destination "(%ecx)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 g_utf8_validate () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_utf8_validate()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[David Planella (dpm)]

I think it might be a mistake in the translation of the plural form of this string:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/nautilus/+pots/nautilus/mk/418/+translate

[Јован Наумовски (jovenaumovski)]

Ok, I changed the plural form of the string David that pointed. I also found out that the bug still exists in gnome upstream and fixed it there, too. It should be ok in the future releases.

Thanks for the help David.

[Damjan Georgievski (gdamjan)]

Can anyone fom Ubuntu report when updated apckages for this would become available?

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

Most probably the new language pack update will be announced on the ubuntu-translators mailing list.

[David Planella (dpm)]

A new language pack was uploaded some time ago, which should have fixed the issue.

Could someone check if the bug was fixed there in Karmic? If you are not using Karmic, this is still very easy to check installing an ISO in Macedonian using a virtual machine (e.g. Virtualbox). Thanks!

[Arangel Angov (arangel)]

I can confirm that it's ok in Karmic now.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Thanks a lot for the feedback Арангел, marking it as Fix Released.