[Thunar-dev] Crash when opening files

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Mon Nov 14 20:09:40 CET 2005


Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> Hi Benny,
> 
> I just checked out libexo and thunar from /trunk and played around with
> them a little bit. When opening some PDFs I noticed that, (almost)
> whenever I opened a file, Thunar is closed. Notice the "almost", which
> means that it doesn't happen all the time.
> 
> My first guess is that it may depend on whether I set up the mime-type
> to be opened with a custom program. But I'm unsure about this and I
> can't proof this theory.
> 
> See below for a backtrace of the crash.
> 
> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> [Switching to Thread -1219017024 (LWP 8008)]
> 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> (gdb) backtrace
> #0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb775c9b1 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #2  0xb775e2c9 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #3  0xb77906ea in __fsetlocking () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #4  0xb7796f54 in malloc_trim () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #5  0xb77972ca in free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #6  0xb78a0054 in g_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #7  0xb78b286b in g_strfreev () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #8  0xb7ed80e1 in thunar_vfs_exec_on_screen (screen=0x80c43d8,
> working_directory=0x81429f8 "/home/jannis", argv=0x831dc28, envp=0xbfe19a5c,
>     flags=G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH, startup_notify=4, error=0xbfe18268) at
> thunar-vfs-exec.c:462

Hm, dunno why it crashes here, but there was indeed a bug in that
function. Can you try again?

BTW: Is Thunar compiled with startup-notification support?

Benedikt



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