Re: [Nautilus-list] GMC broke Nautilus!

[David Fuchs <dfuchs uniserve com>]

Hello,

    The version of Nautilus I'm using is:

$ nautilus --version
Gnome nautilus 1.0.4

    It was installed from the .deb package 'nautilus_1.0.4-ximian.4_i386.deb'
- I downloaded it with apt-get (via dselect) from red-carpet.ximian.com.
 I'm using Debian Potato (2.2) with Linux kernel 2.4.9.  Since my copy of
Nautilus was installed from a package, I cannot use gdb (no debugging symbols
in the packaged version).  I did try an strace of nautilus, and I followed
the child processes by using the `-f' flag.  Here is where strace stops piping
text to STDOUT (right after I close a Nautilus window):

    This may or may not be useful, it's mostly gibberish to me =] but it
looks like it's stuck waiting for a signal.  I don't know much about programming,
but it appears to be removing any signal mask before it enters a suspend
state, waiting for a signal that never arrives.  Hopefully someone on this
list can make sense of it.  I've since purge `gmc' and all of it's configuration
- then re-installed Nautilus thinking that perhaps `gmc' was still getting
in the way.  The problem persists, however...

<snip>
writev(19, [{"GIOP\1\0\1", 7}, {"\0<\0\0\0", 5}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}, {"\224\305\377\277\1",
5}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0!3 \342\311\362r^\6\0\0\0I\ru\336\306"...,
28}, {"\n\0\0\0unrealize\0", 14}, {"\0\0", 2}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}], 9) = 72
select(21, [3 9 10 11 14 19 20], NULL, [3 9 10 11 14 19 20], NULL) = 1 (in
[19])
read(19, "GIOP\1\0\1\1\f\0\0\0", 12)    = 12
read(19, "\0\0\0\0\224\305\377\277\0\0\0\0", 12) = 12
write(5, "+\3\1\0", 4)                  = 4
read(5, "\21\210-:\7\0 \1\7\0 \1H\207\311\10L\370\377\277\356\322"..., 32)
= 32
read(5, 0xbfffc57c, 32)                 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
select(6, [5], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = 1 (in [5])
read(5, "\1\2.:\0\0\0\0\347\4 \2(\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 32)
= 32
writev(19, [{"GIOP\1\0\1", 7}, {"\0H\0\0\0", 5}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}, {"d\304\377\277\1",
5}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0!3 \342\311\362r^\6\0\0\0I\ru\336\306"...,
28}, {"\t\0\0\0setFrame\0", 13}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}, {"\1\0\0\0",
4}, {"\0", 1}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}], 13) = 84
select(21, [3 9 10 11 14 19 20], NULL, [3 9 10 11 14 19 20], NULL) = 1 (in
[19])
read(19, "GIOP\1\0\1\1\f\0\0\0", 12)    = 12
read(19, "\0\0\0\0d\304\377\277\0\0\0\0", 12) = 12
writev(19, [{"GIOP\1\0\1", 7}, {"\0008\0\0\0", 5}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}, {"$\304\377\277\1",
5}, {"\0\0\0", 3}, {"\30\0\0\0\0\0\0\0!3 \342\311\362r^\6\0\0\0I\ru\336\306"...,
28}, {"\6\0\0\0unref\0", 10}, {"\0\0", 2}, {"\0\0\0\0", 4}], 9) = 68
select(21, [3 9 10 11 14 19 20], NULL, [3 9 10 11 14 19 20], NULL) = 1 (in
[19])
read(19, "GIOP\1\0\1\1\f\0\0\0", 12)    = 12
read(19, "\0\0\0\0$\304\377\277\0\0\0\0", 12) = 12
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RT_0], 8) = 0
rt_sigsuspend([]
EOF
</snip>

-David Fuchs



Darin Adler wrote:
> on 10/1/01 4:20 PM, David Fuchs at dfuchs uniserve com wrote:
>
> >   Once Nautilus starts, it displays all the desktop icons properly,
> > and mouse-overs will still highlight the icons and such.  If I open one
> > of the icons (single-click in this case), then it opens the appropriate
> > window.  Now, I can open as many windows as I want, but as soon as I
> > close just one of the opened windows, Nautilus dies.  It's still running
> > if I check the process list, but the icons are no longer drawn (moving a
> > window over top will erase the icon below), and I have to kill Nautilus
> > and have it respawn in order to get the icons back.  Of course the
> > problem occurs the next time I happen to close a Nautilus window.
> >     
>
> I can't tell you what's wrong, because I haven't heard of this problem
> before. But it would be good to diagnose the problem with gdb. If you are
> comfortable with that sort of thing, perhaps we can find out what's going
> wrong.
>
> It's not surprising that a bug could result in a hang in Nautilus when a
> window is closed, although I don't have any particular specific theory about
> what's hanging.
>
> Your message doesn't mention the version of Nautilus you are using.
>
>     -- Darin
>
>
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