file-roller crashes when extracting ZIP archive from command-line

Bug #1078507 reported by Aere Greenway
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Bug Description

When using file-roller from the command-line (entered in lxterm on Lubuntu 12.10) to extract a '.zip' archive to a specified directory, it crashes.

The command used was as follows:

file-roller --extract-to=/home/aere/Test AMK-etc.zip

The command was executed with /home/aere/Test as the current directory, and AMK-etc.zip was the only file in that directory.

The intent was to extract the files contained in the archive into the same folder the archive was in.

Instead, it crashed, generating a core dump.

I can do what I was trying to do, successfully, on Ubuntu 12.04, and Ubuntu-Studio 12.04. I no longer have a Lubuntu 12.04 system (I have upgraded them all to 12.10).

If I extract the same archive to the same directory, using the file-roller GUI, it has no problem. The problem appears to be specific to using the command-line interface. Also, the command-line usage will work if the following command is used:

file-roller -h AMK-etc.zip

Unfortunately, that will not work for me, because it creates a folder called AMK-etc, and extracts the files into that new folder, rather than putting the files in the same folder as the archive.

I tried other variations of the command line to accomplish what I needed, but all of them caused a crash.

The version of file-roller is: 3.6.1.1-0ubuntu1

I expected it to extract the files contained in the archive into the same folder the archive was in.

Instead of that, it crashed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: file-roller 3.6.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 13 16:26:22 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-04-26 (201 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: file-roller
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-20 (24 days ago)

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Aere Greenway (aere) wrote :
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Aere Greenway (aere) wrote :

I reproduced the problem on Ubuntu 12.10, so the problem is not specific to Lubuntu.

Since it works on Ubuntu 12.04, it appears to be specific to the 12.10 release.

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