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ubuntuone-client-gnome package

nautilus crashes if ubuntuone + symlink to big folder

Bug #1098248 reported by JCarsique on 2013-01-10

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntuone-client-gnome (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Ubuntu 12.10
nautilus 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1
ubuntuone-couch 0.3.0-0ubuntu5
ubuntuone* 4.0.0-0ubuntu1

Nautilus was systematically crashing (core dumped) when opening ~/Documents/ which was synchronized with Ubuntu One.

Using strace, I found the culprit was a link named "workspace" (see attached "strace" file). The link target is a big folder (33GB) on another disk.
Here are some workarounds I found:
- open as root with "sudo nautilus ~/Documents/".
- remove the symlink.
- replace the symlink "workspace -> /media/julien/1To/workspace/" with "small -> /media/julien/1To/workspace/small" (the "small" folder sizing about 1MB).
- deactivate Ubuntu One synchronization on ~/Documents/

So, this has something to do with Ubuntu One synchronization and the content size; maybe the addition of a symbolic link pointing to big content after having activated the sync.

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JCarsique (julien-carsique) wrote on 2013-01-10:

strace Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

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dobey (dobey) wrote on 2013-03-26:

Do you have an actual stack trace from gdb, with symbols? It's not possible to determine what is crashing exactly, and where, from your partial strace.

Changed in ubuntuone-client-gnome (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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TomasHnyk (sup) wrote on 2013-04-05:

A link (from a ubuntu synces directory) to a directory with over 150 subdirectories also crashes nautilus. So I guess yo ucould easily reproduce it. Running the following script crashes Nautilus for me (64bit Ubuntu 12.10):

#!/bin/bash
cd ~
mkdir crash_nautilus
cd crash_nautilus
for i in {1..150}; do mkdir "$i" ;done
cd ..
ln -s ~/crash_nautilus link_to_crash_nautilus
mv link_to_crash_nautilus Ubuntu\ One/
nautilus Ubuntu\ One/link_to_crash_nautilus