[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000249]: When trying to view a files/dirs properties, xffm crashes

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A BUGNOTE has been added to this bug.
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000249
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Reporter:                   nick_08150
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000249
Category:                   xffm
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   crash
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2004-07-06 11:07 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-07-07 13:02 GMT
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Summary:                    When trying to view a files/dirs properties, xffm crashes
Description: 
xffm crashes when trying to show a files/dirs properties. This happens with
either the taskbar button or right-click->Properties. xffm does not
receive signal 9, though, but signal 6. I have todays (20040706) CVS
version of all relevant packages installed. Output is attached.
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 edscott - 2004-07-06 12:51 GMT 
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This is strange. The signal 6 is just because it cannot open a required
library. Nothing has been changed with this library, which creates the
properties window, for the last 3 or 4 months. Check for permissions on
file /usr/lib/xffm/libxffm_prop.so

Try doing a 
./configure && make clean install

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 nick_08150 - 2004-07-06 13:18 GMT 
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ok, first thing is that the xffm library names are crippled (the .so is
missing). After freshly checking out the code from CVS and building it,
still the same.
But I'm installing into a non-standard directory in order to build rpm's.
I now realized that I'm reminded to do a libtool --finish lib_dir/, but
that is not the problem, I guess.
Since xffm looks for /usr/lib/xffm/libxffm_prop.so and the library name is
not ok, the load fails. So I think there's nothing wrong with
libxffm_prop.so but with the Makefiles/building stuff.

edited on: 07-06 13:18

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 nick_08150 - 2004-07-06 14:25 GMT 
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Sorry if you receive this note twice but I'm not sure if it was processed
corretly since I never got an email from the xfce bug tracker system.

Actual note:

ok, first thing is that the xffm library names are crippled (the .so is
missing). After freshly checking out the code from CVS and building it,
still the same.
But I'm installing into a non-standard directory in order to build rpm's.
I now realized that I'm reminded to do a libtool --finish lib_dir/, but
that is not the problem, I guess.
Since xffm looks for /usr/lib/xffm/libxffm_prop.so and the library name is
not ok, the load fails. So I think there's nothing wrong with
libxffm_prop.so but with the Makefiles/building stuff.

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 edscott - 2004-07-07 03:16 GMT 
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>From your description, the problem might be that your non-standard library
directory is not in the ld path. Check your ld.conf file. 
If it's not that, then let's look at the file name:
    library=g_strconcat("libxffm_prop.",G_MODULE_SUFFIX, NULL);
    module = g_build_filename (LIBDIR, "xffm", library, NULL);
Check what LIBDIR is. It should be $prefix/lib

I'm currently using --prefix=/var/xfce for both xffm and xfce4-modules and
they work nicely on a xfce_4.0.5 gentoo box.

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 nick_08150 - 2004-07-07 08:40 GMT 
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First of all, I'm building xfce4 from CVS and preparing rpm packages on my
system for months and this kind of problem never occured with xffm before.
I remember now that I had the problem of screwed up library names with
libxfcegui4 once, but apparently it vanished in the next "release". Below
is a list of the installed libraries so you can see what I mean.
My install prefix is /usr for all the xfce4 stuff. From xffm's output I
see that it looks in /usr/lib/xffm, which is the right place, but the
problem doesn't seem to be the ld configuration. The line

module = g_build_filename (LIBDIR, "xffm", library, NULL);

builds the right filename (/usr/lib/xffm/libxffm_prop.so), only that file
doesn't exist (see below). After building xffm, I find the following in
the xffm/modules/.libs/ directory

libxffm_prop -> libxffm_prop.0.0.0
libxffm_prop.0 -> libxffm_prop.0.0.0
libxffm_prop.0.0.0
libxffm_prop.la -> ../libxffm_prop.la
libxffm_prop.lai
libxffm_prop_la-properties.o

That doesn't look right, does it?
So what could be the problem? I can hardly believe it's got something to
do with my system configuration, since it worked so far and works with all
other xfce4 modules, but I will look further into it.


/usr/lib/libxffm_actions
/usr/lib/libxffm_actions.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_actions.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_actions.la
/usr/lib/libxffm_book
/usr/lib/libxffm_book.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_book.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_book.la
/usr/lib/libxffm_calls
/usr/lib/libxffm_calls.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_calls.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_calls.la
/usr/lib/libxffm_cpy
/usr/lib/libxffm_cpy.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_cpy.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_cpy.la
/usr/lib/libxffm_fgr
/usr/lib/libxffm_fgr.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_fgr.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_fgr.la
/usr/lib/libxffm_fstab
/usr/lib/libxffm_fstab.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_fstab.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_fstab.la
/usr/lib/libxffm_goto
/usr/lib/libxffm_goto.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_goto.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_goto.la
/usr/lib/libxffm_rcp
/usr/lib/libxffm_rcp.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_rcp.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_rcp.la
/usr/lib/libxffm_trash
/usr/lib/libxffm_trash.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_trash.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_trash.la
/usr/lib/libxffm_tubo
/usr/lib/libxffm_tubo.1
/usr/lib/libxffm_tubo.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffm_tubo.la
/usr/lib/libxffmsmb
/usr/lib/libxffmsmb.1
/usr/lib/libxffmsmb.1.0.0
/usr/lib/libxffmsmb.la
/usr/lib/pkgconfig
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xffm-1.0.pc
/usr/lib/xfce4
/usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins
/usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/libxffmsettings
/usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/libxffmsettings.la
/usr/lib/xffm
/usr/lib/xffm/libxffm_prop
/usr/lib/xffm/libxffm_prop.0
/usr/lib/xffm/libxffm_prop.0.0.0
/usr/lib/xffm/libxffm_prop.la

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 edscott - 2004-07-07 13:02 GMT 
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Perhaps my autostuff tools are broken and I generated broken build tools
for your system. If that is the case, if you run ./autogen.sh from within
the xffm directory should fix the problem.