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[Columns View] Crash when browsing hidden folders and deactivating "Show hidden files"

Bug #1080702 reported by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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This bug affects 47 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Files
Fix Released
High
Jeremy Wootten
Files 0.1.2

Bug Description

Pantheon files reliably crashes after taking the following steps:
1) Switch to column mode
2) Enable showing hidden files
3) Navigate to a hidden folder
4) Disable showing hidden files. Observe the crash.

A screencast showing the problem is attached. This bug was found by Alperen.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: pantheon-files 0.1-0~r1026+pkg10~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
CrashDB: pantheon_files
Date: Mon Nov 19 17:32:18 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pantheon-files
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20121001-15:16
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: pantheon-files
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f16acd831b5 <g_type_check_instance+21>: mov (%rax),%rdi
 PC (0x7f16acd831b5) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x6e61702f67726f2f) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdi" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pantheon-files
StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
Title: pantheon-files crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Related branches

lp://staging/~jeremywootten/pantheon-files/fix-1080702
Julián Unrrein (community): Approve
Diff: 201 lines (+59/-13)
5 files modified
libcore/gof-directory-async.vala (+3/-2)
libcore/marlin-icon-info.c (+1/-1)
src/fm-columns-view.c (+1/-1)
src/fm-directory-view.c (+10/-1)
src/marlin-window-columns.c (+44/-8)
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :
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RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 g_type_check_instance (type_instance=0x147f4d0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./gobject/gtype.c:4073
 g_signal_emit_valist (instance=0x147f4d0, signal_id=397, detail=0, var_args=0x7fff6b62af78) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./gobject/gsignal.c:3083
 g_signal_emit (instance=<optimized out>, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./gobject/gsignal.c:3352
 g_closure_invoke (closure=0x1185830, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=2, param_values=0x7fff6b62b220, invocation_hint=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./gobject/gclosure.c:777
 signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=<optimized out>, detail=0, instance=<optimized out>, emission_return=0x0, instance_and_params=0x7fff6b62b220) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./gobject/gsignal.c:3547

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RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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RabbitBot (rabbitbot-a) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: New → Confirmed
information type: Private → Public
description: updated
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)
Changed in pantheon-files:
importance: Undecided → High
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Julián Unrrein (junrrein) wrote : Re: pantheon-files crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance()

When disabling showing hidden folders, should the columns that spawned from the hidden folder be closed immediately, and switch to the parent folder?

Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: none → luna-beta3
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Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote :

Need a new report, haven't seen this since Jan 2013.

Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Julián Unrrein (junrrein) wrote :

I can reproduce this with the steps provided in the report.

Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Julián Unrrein (junrrein)
summary: - pantheon-files crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_check_instance()
+ [Columns View] Crash when browsing hidden folders and deactivating "Show
+ hidden folders"
Julián Unrrein (junrrein)
summary: [Columns View] Crash when browsing hidden folders and deactivating "Show
- hidden folders"
+ hidden files"
Julián Unrrein (junrrein)
Changed in pantheon-files:
assignee: nobody → Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Julián Unrrein (junrrein)
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
milestone: 0.3-beta1 → 0.1.2
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