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Bug 57698 - Nautilus binary becomes corrupt
Nautilus binary becomes corrupt
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel (Show other bugs)
7.2
i686 Linux
medium Severity medium
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Assigned To: Arjan van de Ven
Aaron Brown
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Reported: 2001-12-19 03:38 EST by dirk Ketels
Modified: 2007-04-18 12:38 EDT (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-02-25 09:56:45 EST
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Description dirk Ketels 2001-12-19 03:38:32 EST 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
nautilus gives a segmentation fault allmost every time it starts.  Gnome 
is not working fine due to that.  It works fine on a intel-II machine and 
not working on a intel-III-machine

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start up gnome or start nautilus
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  On startup of gnome : nothing, desktop icons are not 
arpearing
on startup out of a terminal : segmentation fault

Expected Results:  a working system

Additional info:

system is running kernel 2.4.9-13

the same kind of problems, but less frequent, appeared on the 7.1-
distribution on the same machine

There has NOT been a upgrade, there was a fresh install of 7.2, followed 
by a kernel upgrade.

It can be observed that the spash-screen takes a very long time to 
disapear.

The following output is made in a terminal window after the icon's did not 
appear.  
[root@tst1 root]# nautilus
Segmentation fault
[root@tst1 root]# nautilus-clean.sh
nautilus-clean: No stale processes found.
[root@tst1 root]# oaf-slay
[root@tst1 root]# killall -9 nautilus
nautilus: no process killed
[root@tst1 root]# gdb nautilus
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.1-1)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you 
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/nautilus 
[New Thread 1024 (LWP 2479)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 2479)]
0x40278984 in __do_global_ctors_aux () from /usr/lib/libnautilus-
private.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0  0x40278984 in __do_global_ctors_aux ()
   from /usr/lib/libnautilus-private.so.0
#1  0x4020fcb6 in _init () from /usr/lib/libnautilus-private.so.0
#2  0x4000da97 in _dl_init (main_map=0x40016c00, argc=1, argv=0xbffffa64, 
    env=0xbffffa6c) at dl-init.c:70
(gdb)
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2001-12-19 09:58:46 EST 
When you say "kernel upgrade" you mean to our errata right?

When you say the same happened in 7.1 what do you mean - Nautilus wasn't in 7.1?
Comment 2 dirk Ketels 2001-12-19 12:52:52 EST 
On 7.1 the startup of gnome did not work allways.  Sometimes the panel did 
crash.  Now the panel is allways starting, but the desktop isn't.

the upgrade of kernel is done via the kernel 2.4.9-13-prm on the redhat errata-
pages
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-01-18 15:44:12 EST 
I have no preliminary idea what's going on here.
Comment 4 Sergio Perani 2002-02-03 08:13:49 EST 
I have a similar problem on Dell Inspiron 8000. Generally I have a segmentation
fault of nautilus at startup. But I noted that often the nautilus binary is
changed (/usr/bin/nautilus) so the workaround is to reinstall the rpm.

The behaviour changes everytime, like if nautilus, when it can run, modifies
only a part of its files.
Comment 5 Need Real Name 2002-02-07 03:20:42 EST 
I do confirm that behaviour Sergio described... :-((
I run RH 7.2 on a Compaq Armada M700 (PIII) laptop. Nautilus 's binary
in /usr/bin/nautilus is corrupted after a user login. Consequently
the splash screen is lasting much longer than usually and Nautilus is
not launched (of course). The fallback solution is to copy again the
binary file from a temporary place, but each time you boot on, you have
to do that.  Very bad...
Comment 6 Havoc Pennington 2002-02-07 10:08:29 EST 
AFAIK if the Nautilus binary is munged, this has to be a kernel or hardware
problem. Nautilus does not have write permission to /usr/bin/nautilus.

I have no idea however why the nautilus binary would get mangled but not other
files on your disk.
Comment 7 Stephen Tweedie 2002-02-07 12:30:17 EST 
These problems sound very much like data corruption, yes: it could be corruption
in memory or on the ide bus.

rpm checksums all files in all packages using reliable md5 signatures, and you
can check any installed package for corruption with "rpm -V".  I'd suggest that
the first step to diagnosing the corruptions here would be to run rpm -V on
various packages: "rpm -Va" will verify all packages on the system (but beware
that it will warn about changes which may be legitimate, including config file
changes, so dont' assume that absolutely all warnings are fatal.)

If rpm -Va produces different results from one run to the next, it's a pretty
good indicator that we're getting ide bus corruption.  Booting with the
"ide=nodma" kernel option is often enough to work around problems with some ide
controllers.
Comment 8 Sergio Perani 2002-02-07 19:51:34 EST 
I am doing futher investigations, waiting the next file modification.
But I forgot to tell that when the file is changed also the date
is updated.

[sergiop@gart bin]$ ls -l nautilus.*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       537868 Feb  4 23:08 nautilus.old
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       537868 Feb  6 08:50 nautilus.old2
[sergiop@gart bin]$ ls -l nautilus  
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       537868 Sep  7 02:03 nautilus

The date are not random, reflect real use of the system.

For my knowledge, in this case who changes the file understand also
the filesystem; I suppose that it is not a low level driver.
Comment 9 Stephen Tweedie 2002-02-08 11:06:12 EST 
If a file is being modified that way then it's not likely to be a kernel fault,
but an application.  What is the difference between the different copies of the
files, and what does rpm -V show?
Comment 10 Sergio Perani 2002-02-24 08:55:50 EST 
After two weeks of testing, the impression is that problem is with ide dma.
Premise: with past redhat installation (7.0) for a problem with X windows 
I often had not clear umount, so generally I do not care about failed fsck,
and I understimate some other problems.

Generally the problem is with nautilus binary, sometimes it is corruped only
in memory; sometimes the date of the file changes, other times not. 
Some files disappared, preferred directoris are in /usr/share.

[root@dylan root]# diff rpmV8-2.txt rpmV24-2.txt 
3a4,12
> .M...UG.   /usr/share/pixmaps/calculator-font.png
> .M.D.UG.   /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-default-dlg.png
> .M.D.UG.   /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-error.png
> SM?..UGT   /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-info.png
> .M.D.UG.   /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-question.png
> .M.D.UG.   /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-warning.png
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/no.xpm
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/yes.xpm
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/gftp.png
286a296,298
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/dia-diagram.png
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/dia_gnome_icon.png
> ..5.....   /usr/bin/panel
507,508c519
< .....U..   /dev/tty1
< .M....G.   /dev/tty2
---
> .....U..   /dev/tty2
587a599,625
> missing    /etc/X11/sysconfig/serviceconf.desktop
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/serviceconf.xpm
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-calendar-conduit.png
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-gnomecard.png
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/basic.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/basic.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/bindings.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/bindings.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/inline.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/inline.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/lap.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/lap.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/modules.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/modules.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/no-lang.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/no-lang.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/rep.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/rep.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/scheme.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/scheme.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/src.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/src.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/unscheme.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/unscheme.jlc
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/utils.jl
> missing    /usr/share/rep/0.13.6/lisp/rep/vm/compiler/utils.jlc
653a692
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/kontrol-panel.png
1749a1789,1791
> missing    /etc/X11/sysconfig/hwbrowser.desktop
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/hwbrowser.png
> missing    /etc/X11/sysconfig/redhat-config-users.desktop
1763a1806
> S.5....T c /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
1789a1833,1835
> Unsatisfied dependencies for gcvs-1.0b2-1: /usr/bin/csh
> missing    /etc/X11/sysconfig/dateconfig.desktop
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/dateconfig.png
1790a1837,1839
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-ee.png
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/gqview.png
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-gtop.png
1835a1885,1886
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/gedit-icon.png
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/gedit-logo.png
1849a1901,1902
> missing    /etc/X11/sysconfig/printconf-gui.desktop
> missing    /usr/share/pixmaps/printer.png

If I do a fsck on a clear unmounted disk I hade often corruption.
In the past I had also an ext3 hole, I suppose that was a problem with
the ext3 driver, but now I think that could be the same problem.

With the kernel option ide=nodma I had no problem: no problem with nautilus,
all fsck are ok.
Comment 11 Stephen Tweedie 2002-02-25 08:19:33 EST 
Red Hat 7.0 used the 2.2 kernel, which had much more limited support for modern
IDE chipsets in DMA mode.  So, under 7.0, you may well have been running in
nodma mode anyway.  There are updates available for 2.4.17 which have been
reported to fix some IDE DMA problems for certain chipsets, and our rawhide
kernels now contain those patches if you want to try them.

There have been no updates, though, from dirk.ketels@uzgent.be.  Dirk, do you
have "rpm -V" output for Nautilus available?
Comment 12 dirk Ketels 2002-02-25 09:56:41 EST 
sorry for not reacting.  I did leave the gnome-desktop to go to the kde-
desktop, as the first reaction ( 3/2 ) was cvoming late for me ( started 19/12) 
and the system had to go in to production.

For that reason I changed to KDE, which is not having any problems on that same 
machine.

I can't give you any prm -V output for that reason, sorry.
Comment 13 Stephen Tweedie 2002-02-25 10:12:53 EST 
OK, thanks.  Please reopen if you want to take this any further.
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