nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in nautilus_link_get_link_info_given_file_contents()

[Tim Sharitt]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Nautilus is crashing when trying to open a directory containing desktop entry files. I have included the output of gdb when trying to access /usr/share/applications. If you need any more information, please let me know.

Ubuntu Version:
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

Package version:
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:2.25.2-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1:2.25.2-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.25.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Tim Sharitt (tsharitt)]

I did some more digging, and it turns out that this only occurs if a desktop file does not have a Type specified for the Desktop Entry. Adding Type=Application for compiz.desktop solved the problem for /usr/share/applications.