nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in _gdk_pixbuf_new_from_uri_at_scale()

StacktraceTop:
 _gdk_pixbuf_new_from_uri_at_scale (uri=uri@entry=0x2874d50 "file:///media/doug/0a803857-8b6f-4332-82b4-85ebf8283805/home/doug/Videos/Youtube/Amy%20Winehouse%20-%20Back%20To%20Black.mp4", width=width@entry=256, height=height@entry=256, preserve_aspect_ratio=1) at gnome-desktop-thumbnail.c:469
 gnome_desktop_thumbnail_factory_generate_thumbnail (factory=<optimized out>, uri=0x2874d50 "file:///media/doug/0a803857-8b6f-4332-82b4-85ebf8283805/home/doug/Videos/Youtube/Amy%20Winehouse%20-%20Back%20To%20Black.mp4", mime_type=<optimized out>) at gnome-desktop-thumbnail.c:1223
 thumbnail_thread_start (data=<optimized out>) at nautilus-thumbnails.c:546
 start_thread (arg=0x7f2511a06700) at pthread_create.c:311
 clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:113

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1203349

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

also on saucy

saucy too

Getting this bug in saucy when downloading a png file to my Desktop.
nautilus crashes, taking my desktop down with it, and Desktop does not come back until nautilus is opened manually.

do you have python-nautilus installed? does it happen without it?

It crashes with python-nautilus installed.
Once uninstalled (I had to uninstal nautilus-emblems too because of dependencie), there is no more crash.
With Ubuntu 13.10.

Downloaded a pdf and saved to Desktop on Saucy = crash.

On 10/07/2013 09:59 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> do you have python-nautilus installed? does it happen without it?
>
On the affected install yes, python-nautilus is installed but it doesn't
seem to be p-n per-se.

If I only use one of the example extensions that's in the n-p package
then no poor behavior (open-terminal.py
However if I use the "geditas" extension (geditas.py), from the nautilus
actions extra ppa then the poor behavior occurs.
So it seems more an issue with that extension then n-p itself
(- whether other extensions from that ppa cause issue haven't tried but
most users aren't installing n-p unless they're using an extension(s) &
that ppa is the most common source of such.

I've got something very comparable: "nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gnome_desktop_thumbnail_factory_generate_thumbnail()". I think it is best to add my info

When creating an empty image file, the thumbnail-function gnome_desktop_thumbnail_factory_generate_thumbnail() makes Nautilus crash.

This error is only given when running nautilus as root, as normal user it just crashes without any message.

To get this error:

- open Nautilus
- go to your home-directory with Nautilus
- create an empty jpg or png in your home-directory ("gedit file.png" and then save this file)
- wait up to 3 seconds
- Nautilus crashes

From what I read form the code, it seems not to check if data-size is 0 (gdk_pixbuf_get_byte_length is not used), or gets a non-zero width and length.

See https://developer.gnome.org/gdk-pixbuf/stable/gdk-pixbuf-The-GdkPixbuf-Structure.html#GdkPixbuf for documentation and https://github.com/GNOME/libgnomeui/blob/master/libgnomeui/gnome-thumbnail.c for the source.

Ubuntu 13.10
Nautilus 3.8.2

Nautilus has just started displaying this behaviour on my system today, when opening as a normal user. I think all of the zero-byte files - almost all old windows files e.g. wmv - have been there for over a year, but after deleting them Nautilus opens.

Also started having this in 13.10, nautilus 3.8.2. Too bad didn't check when the 0-byte file was created (was a 0 byte .gif), but I'm fairly sure it was there previously. Yesterday I did some system updates though...

In my case I narrowed the problem down to nautilus-compare package.

Frequently happen on my Download folder, Desktop, when encoding file and also on external hdd when the process are interupted or incomplete. The 0 byte file making folder and hdd inaccessable and also my desktop files on saucy gone.

Ubuntu 13.10
Nautilus 3.8.2

crashes with python-nautilus installed, when dowloading pdf and video files

The issue is a nautilus-python one, reassigning there

Same problem with Ubuntu 13.10 and Nautilus 3.6.1 when download video files.

Errata Corrige: Nautilus 3.8.2

Same issue here; Nautilus 3.8.2 .. Happens any time there is an image file that is 0 bytes.

As reported in #1262504, I had a 0-byte file with extension .pdf in ~/Desktop (probably created by Evince or Firefox). Changing the extension solved the problem.

This is fixed in 14.04, from what no idea
(isn't 14.04 versions of nautilus*, totem*, nautilus-python, libglib* per se

considering 13.10 only has 7 months or so to live probably doesn't matter to figure out..

Well, - upgraded libgtk-3-0 to 3-0_3.8.7 in 13.10 & the issue disappeared
(note that also inc. glib to 2.39.2, ect., not really inclined to backtrack & see if it's only a gtk issue

Well, catering for "plain users" which will not install 14.04 till released, maybe instead of backtracking in already-obsolete core GTK stuff, somebody could just add a "quick-and-dirty" patch saying "if file size equals zero don't show preview" (I'm not a developer and so I don't really know but matbe its' two lines) would be helpful, as you say, it's still several month of support remaining for 13.10 before EOL.

I was affected by the bug hit when I had a .dvi file with zero size (13.10). Indeed, as of late February, the version of libgtk-3-0 that I have is 3.8.6-0ubuntu3.1, (I just did apt-get update and dist-upgrade). How did you upgrade to 3.8.7 in 13.10?

Similarly, I just experienced this with a 0 byte flv file under Saucy (updated). Running nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu2.2 and libgtk-3-0 3.8.6-0ubuntu3.1. I would expect the zero file size to be ignored rather than crash Nautilus. Peace - Anthony