Xubuntu 18.10 catfish crashed searching for // , showing hidden files and searching within files

[Willem Hobers]

Testing Xubuntu 18.10. I had catfish search for '//'. Hidden files showing, and also looking inside files, searching from filesystem /. My mouse became slow and later catfish had disappeared. I started up ubuntu-bug catfish to report this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: catfish 1.4.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon May 21 17:24:43 2018
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: catfish
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

I have been able to reproduce this several times now.

[Willem Hobers (whobers)]

I should add: the crash happens when searching from filesystem /

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

It looks like catfish should not search within files in /dev.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package catfish - 1.4.7-1

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catfish (1.4.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
    - Fixed context menu activation (LP: #1788058)
    - Fixed crash with searching inside /dev (LP: #1772437)
    - Fixed window button placement in LXDE (LP: #1512031)
    - Fixed occasional crash at startup (LP: #1753163)
  * d/control:
    - Bump Standards-Version to 4.3.0, no changes needed.
  * d/copyright:
    - Bump source copyright years to 2019

 -- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:44:12 -0500