nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gconf_client_remove_dir()

[ingo]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Ubuntu-Hardy amd64 w. GNOME desktop

Crashes can be reproduced:

every time I log-out from a x-session (gnome desktop) by using the button 'logout' in GNOME-panel, a segfault is logged in /var/log/messages:

May 20 17:32:48 pp kernel: [ 106.816037] nautilus[6654]: segfault at a000034 rip 7f5f9780ef0f rsp 7fffa2dbaa00 error 4

I coud pin it further down by watching all nautilus-processes (ps ax | grep nautilus) and found this process:

 7333 ? Sl 0:00 nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2

which is automatically startet for any GNOME session (I personally do not need/use smb). This process is killed when logging out from x-session. I checked in a virtual terminal with 'ps ax | grep nautilus' and could confirm that said nautilus-process is killed every time a user logs out and recreated with different PID when a user logs-in a graphical x-session.

I followed the advice from <email address hidden> and enabled Apport in /etc/default/apport. This is a continuation of bug 231725
I also do attach the corresponding report in /var/crash.

Hope this helps,
Ingo

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 20 17:32:49 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 gconf_client_remove_dir ()
 ?? ()
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? ()
 g_object_unref () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gconf_client_remove_dir()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev uml-net vboxusers video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:nautilus_actions_config_gconf_reader_finalize (object=0x80d870)
IA__g_object_unref (_object=<value optimized out>)
nautilus_actions_instance_dispose (obj=0x80d840) at nautilus-actions.c:178
IA__g_object_unref (_object=<value optimized out>)
?? ()

[A. Walton (awalton)]

This is a crash inside of Nautilus-actions.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

Right, I have nautilus-actions installed.
The only thing I use it for is with 'wipe-selected-schemas' to securely erase decrypted files after use.

[ingo (ingo-steiner)]

I have the same configuration (nautilus-actions + wipe-selected-schemas) running smoothly under Feisty without any complaints/crashes!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

[Andreas Dohrn (sprachenwandler)]

Hi fellas,

I got the same problem: When I click the red quit button (reboot/quit/sleep/logoff etc.) my X-session gets killed and as far as I can see (according to) it is due to a segmentation fault of nautilus:

May 29 18:30:01 homebase kernel: [ 437.347599] nautilus[26821]: segfault at d1000020 eip b76cd2d6 esp bfd14b60 error 5
May 29 18:30:03 homebase kernel: [ 437.987656] mtrr: no MTRR for c0000000,4000000 found

Please find enclosed my /var/log/messages ;)

btw. things were working fine with 7.10 in the first months but after some time this problem set in. Even after upgrading online to 8.04 the problem is persisting.
I did do "dpkg-reconfigure gdm" and similar commands but it didnt help. However, I have not yet performed a reinstall of gdm and nautilus. Btw. I uninstalled also nautilus-actions and as u can imagine - no improvements...

Any clue?