Bug 199835

Summary: Copy and paste can casue Nautilus to crash
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Ian Laurie <nixuser>
Component: freetypeAssignee: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 4.0CC: eric.eisenhart, jss
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Description Ian Laurie 2006-07-23 03:03:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
Copy and paste can casue Nautilus to crash.  It happens on multiple boxes with
RHEL4.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nautilus-2.8.1-4

How reproducible:
I was under the impression it was now and then, but today I can reproduce the
problem at will, and it is consistent.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login as root (run level 5)
2. Right click on a file and select copy.
3. Move to another location and right click and select paste.
4. Nautilus crashes if the file already exists. 
  
Actual results:
Nautilus crashes; sometimes you get asked if you want to restart the
application, at other times you don't, but the nautilus automatically does restart.

Expected results:
Should ask if you want to overwrite the file... and then do it.


Additional info:
I am 99.99% certain the latest wave of updates causes this problem.  I had this
problem on one RHEL4 box but did NOT have it on another.... until I ran up2date. 

I believe the latest wave of updates were to freetype, gimp and libwmf.

I'd class this issue as quite serious as it represents a major loss of
functionality, and results in an important Gnome component crashing.
Comment 1 Ian Laurie 2006-07-23 03:51:12 UTC 
On the second box, I backed out of the latest wave of updates by using 
rpm -U --force <package> and using the binary packages from the original
iso set of CDs.  One package at a time, and restarting Gnome each time.

The guilty update seems to be freetype* (4 rpms in total).

I then backdated just the 4 freetype packages on the first box and
it fixed the problem there also.

Obviously that doesn't mean the bug is in freetype.... I am fairly certain
I've seen this problem before on RHEL4, but it happened infrequently.  The
latest freetype just makes it happen every time.
Comment 2 Ian Laurie 2006-07-23 04:14:47 UTC 
There is a backtrace of the crash on GNOME's site:

    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348376

Hope this helps.
Comment 3 Owen Taylor 2006-07-24 21:43:24 UTC 
Reassigning appropriately.
Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-07-27 17:46:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200033 ***
Comment 5 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-07-27 20:52:16 UTC 
*** Bug 199397 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-07-27 21:07:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200033 ***