nautilus crashes when opening folder containing certain .desktop file

[bitsent]

When the folder is opened, nautilus crashes and restarts, with this line in /var/log/syslog:

kernel: [ 3425.325654] nautilus[9824]: segfault at 00000000 eip b69e6f97 esp bf88b470 error 4

Symptoms are similar to Bug #127826. I'm using nautilus 2.22.2 in Ubuntu 8.04 (32-bit) with updates.

Steps to reproduce this bug:

  * create a new directory
  * create a file in this directory called "test.desktop" which contains:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=test
Type=Link
URL=http://google.com/A%2FB
Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark
Name[en_US]=test

  * browse to this new folder (or a link to this folder) in nautilus
  * nautilus crashes
  * removing the "%2F" from test.desktop causes nautilus to NOT crash

[A. Walton (awalton)]

Thanks for your bug report. Can you get a stacktrace as
documented at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash. This will
greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to 'New'. Thanks again!

[bitsent (bitsent)]

I looked at the instructions for getting a stack trace and they involve adding lines to /etc/apt/sources.list and installing some additional packages. While I'm not opposed to spending a little bit of time to help the Ubuntu community, I am opposed to making changes of this degree to my laptop because it is the only computer I have and I depend on it greatly.

What's more, I described the steps required to reproduce this bug, and while I can't be certain, I think that this can be easily reproduced on any Ubuntu computer with the stack trace packages already installed. It should take less than a minute.

This is a real bug, causes nautilus to crash, is extremely easy to reproduce, and should therefor be easy to fix. The fact that I am unwilling to install additional packages on my only computer should not prevent someone from looking into this a little.

Those are my $0.02.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

confirmed on intrepid and sent to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539967