nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_type_info_check()

[Anders Pamdal]

Just closed a window.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-13.14-generic 3.18.5
Uname: Linux 3.18.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
ApportVersion: 2.16.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Feb 14 16:05:29 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
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 2014-12-22 (53 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20141124)
ProcCmdline: nautilus -n
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f4da4e237e0: movzbl 0x8(%rbx),%eax
 PC (0x7f4da4e237e0) ok
 source "0x8(%rbx)" (0x00000008) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nautilus
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_variant_type_info_get_type_string () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_variant_type_info_get_type_string()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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StacktraceTop:
 g_variant_type_info_check (info=info@entry=0x0, container_class=container_class@entry=0 '\000') at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.43.3/./glib/gvarianttypeinfo.c:162
 g_variant_type_info_get_type_string (info=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.43.3/./glib/gvarianttypeinfo.c:198
 g_variant_get_type (value=value@entry=0x30a5580) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.43.3/./glib/gvariant.c:2033
 append_value_to_blob (value=value@entry=0x34d5ef0, type=<optimized out>, mbuf=mbuf@entry=0x7fff628183b0, out_padding_added=out_padding_added@entry=0x7fff62817f38, error=error@entry=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.43.3/./gio/gdbusmessage.c:2474
 append_value_to_blob (value=value@entry=0x30e2240, type=<optimized out>, mbuf=mbuf@entry=0x7fff628183b0, out_padding_added=out_padding_added@entry=0x0, error=error@entry=0x0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.43.3/./gio/gdbusmessage.c:2435

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

e.u.c reports, started in vivid
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/6e60da9807578d944aeba7c71f7bec3684a3b7a3

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug didn't get activity/new duplicates for some years and the nautilus code saw quite some changes since which probably deprecated the issue so closing it. If it's still a problem in recent Ubuntu/nautilus version please submit a new report