Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus News crashes pretty frequently

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 23Jul2001 01:54PM (-0600), Dan Hensley wrote:
> It crashed on me again just now.  It crashes fairly frequently, but
> unfortunately whenever it does bug-buddy can't come up with a backtrace.
> Has anyone else noticed its instability (it's always been unstable for
> me)?  I guess I can try running nautilus-news in gdb whenever I launch
> Nautilus, but the crashes are pretty unpredictable.
> 

Hi Dan,

I noticed the News sidebar panel crashes too, so I ran it under gdb
(if you turn off a sidebar panel, run it under gdb, and then use the
"backtrace" command when it crashes, that's a great way to get
backtraces that make for great bug reports).

I found what I think is the source of the news panel crashes;
coincidentally it was also the cause of a bug I noticed last night
where typing in an invalid http URI would crash Nautilus. The bug was
related to some of the changes made to allow for https support.

I just commited a change to gnome-vfs which fixes the problem
(gnome-vfs-1 branch for now, I'll commit on HEAD as soon as it's done
building).

Can you let me know if it solves the problems for you too?

Regards,

Maciej