attempted to extract .gz file from usb drive to home directory and application crashed

[Shawn Morrison]

Binary package hint: file-roller

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
file-roller:
  Installed: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
attempted to extract file and file roler app crashes with the following message:
tar: /home/shawn/scripts/NetProvisioning-2.00: Cannot chdir: Permission denied
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 8 12:54:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
Package: file-roller 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: file-roller /home/username/scripts/source\ files/NetProvisioning-2.00.tar.gz
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f1f43 <strlen+51>: mov (%eax),%ecx
 PC (0x007f1f43) ok
 source "(%eax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%ecx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: file-roller
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:strlen () at ../sysdeps/i386/i486/strlen.S:69
fr_archive_extract_to_local (archive=<value optimized out>,
fr_archive_extract (archive=0x8a9e898, file_list=0x8a9b800,
fr_window_archive_extract (window=0x8adf800,
file_list_drag_end (widget=0x8ae80b0, context=0x8b04028,

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it looks like bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472022 ; will comment upstream. thank you for reporting.