Bug 430333

Summary: nautilus segfault starts using large percentage of cpu
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Roland Hermans <rolandh>
Component: nautilusAssignee: Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 8CC: tbzatek, tsmetana
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Fixed In Version: 2.20.0-8.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Roland Hermans 2008-01-26 08:57:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
Since upgrading to Fedora 8 sporadically a nautilus process starts consuming a
lot of CPU time and is continuously writing the line "(USER): debug log dumped
due to signal 11" to the file nautilus-debug-log.txt in the user's home directory.

I'm marking this bug urgent as on our multi-user system a number of these
runaway processes severly impact the system's performance.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nautilus-2.20.0-6.fc8
nautilus-cd-burner-2.20.0-1.fc8
nautilus-debuginfo-2.20.0-6.fc8
nautilus-extensions-2.20.0-6.fc8
nautilus-sendto-0.12-5.fc8

How reproducible:
I don't know why the nautilus processes segfault, but when they do they should
not start using all the available CPU time.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Nautilus process starts consuming a lot of CPU time and is continuously writing
the line "(USER): debug log dumped due to signal 11" to the file
nautilus-debug-log.txt in the user's home directory.

Expected results:
Write a single line to the file nautilus-debug-log.txt and exit.

Additional info:
- Attached backtrace created with gdb.
- The external bug reference contains a number of references to other bug
reports of the same problem on various distributions. According to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/153382 just a few days
ago a fix has been released for Hardy.
Comment 1 Roland Hermans 2008-01-26 08:57:01 UTC 
Created attachment 293043 [details]
gdb backtrace of running nautilus process
Comment 2 Roland Hermans 2008-01-26 09:02:23 UTC 
Created attachment 293044 [details]
gdb backtrace of another running nautilus process
Comment 3 Tomáš Bžatek 2008-02-21 11:20:28 UTC 
Master bug from Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/150471

Proposed patch:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12083923/92_from_svn_no_buggy_signal_handler.patch
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-02-21 15:14:00 UTC 
nautilus-2.20.0-8.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
Comment 5 Roland Hermans 2008-02-21 22:09:03 UTC 
Thanks for the new nautilus packages. Today I installed them on the system
having showing this problem and for the coming week I'll see what effect it has.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-02-26 00:25:03 UTC 
nautilus-2.20.0-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.