Ubuntu
file-roller package

null error when trying to open a file not correctly named

Bug #292835 reported by Carlos Horacio Ruiz on 2008-11-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #26662: using the filename to get the mimetype is not always correct. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	File Roller	New	Unknown	gnome-bugs #562481
	file-roller (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Hi,

In trying to decompress a few items that you download for beryl, the manager of filing cabinets, a window appears stating that a mistake has happened Null.

I have ubuntu 8.10

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: file-roller 2.24.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=es_CO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

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Carlos Horacio Ruiz (cl4551f13d) wrote on 2008-11-02:

contains the file that gives error when trying to decompress. also includes capturing the entire desktop. Edit (292.4 KiB, application/x-7z-compressed)
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (27.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (790 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote on 2008-11-05:

assigning to file-roller
i confirm this behaviour. the contained file, named "Blue", is in fact a gzipped tarbal. if renamed to Blue.tgz, it opens fine, so it seems the lack of an extension makes the difference...
i am assigning the Blue file outside the .tar.7z

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote on 2008-11-05: