Nautilus Crash when Displaying JPEG 2000 .jp2 .j2k Thumbnails

[Pascal Mons]

There is definitely a problem with Nautilus and only with Nautilus. No need to make jasper shoulder the GNOME responsibility.

On Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 LTS I have installed both Marlin and Nautilus / Nemo File Managers.

Marlin has no problem previewing JPEG 2000 thumbnails in .j2k and .jp2 format. [I mean opening a folder with dozens of .j2k and .jp2 images].

However Nautilus [3.10] / Nemo (both) are constantly crashing. e.g.

nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in jpc_qmfb_join_colgrp()

On the command line running jasper is working fine too (Cevennes2.jpg is coming right from the official website)

http://www.openjpeg.org/index.php?menu=samples

$ jasper --input Cevennes2.jp2 --output Cevennes2-bis.bmp --output-format bmp

When will Nautilus behave appropriately for JPEG 2000 thumnbails ? This is dating back for years ...

I have read through the same bug reported Oct. 9, 2009
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/+bug/427100

Then 2 other bug reports from 2010 and 2011
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/+bug/863187
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/+bug/555238

Here we have Sebastien Bacher (seb128) (an Ubuntu employee) stating that the issue lies with the jasper library.

The previous test I made with the Marlin File Manager and the jasper Library proves that it's not the case.

As a further example when attaching the .jp2 sample for this bug report, Firefox did open the File Manager (Nautilus / Nemo) to select the image and it displayed the small thumbnail appropriately.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-29.39~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jan 14 13:17:59 2015
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-19 (25 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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