Password error

[John Keenan]

I believe I have uncovered an error with Archive Manager (file-roller).

  1) From Files, right-click on a single file and select context menu item "Compress...".
  2) Modify the archive filename as desired. Select archive type .zip. Do not specify a password. Click the "Create" button.
  3) Open the newly created archive and delete the single file it contains.
  4) Select Archive manager menu item Edit > Set Password...
  5) Enter the desired password and click the "Save" button. At this point a dialog appears with the following error message:

    Could not create the archive

    Error when getting information for file '/home/John/Documents/Personal/.fr-Gr7BGf/junk.zip': No such file or directory

The file '/home/John/Documents/Personal/junk.zip' does exist and is open. The "/.fr-Gr7BGf" part has been mistakenly put into the file path resulting in the error message. (The password did not contain "/.fr-Gr7BGf".)

I realize it is not common to ask for a password protected archive with no contents. But to me this error indicates a string over running its intended memory which should probably be corrected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: file-roller 3.16.5-0ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-53.74-generic 4.4.30
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Dec 8 15:25:03 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-11-06 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: file-roller
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.