Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 60482
nautilus crashes when folder is removed
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:40:40 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020214 Description of problem: nautilus crashes or terminates when a folder or directory or file is removed behind its back Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Direct nautilus to the directory /tmp/a/b 2. In a terminal window, recursively delete the directory /tmp/a And next, either 3a or 3b will occur. I haven't been able to determine what causes one to happen in preference to the other. 3a. When the nautilus window is refreshed, an error message is displayed stating that the directory c is missing and nautilus dies 3b. When the nautilus window is refreshed, nautilus dies without warning. Actual Results: nautilus either crashes or terminates -- not sure whether there is a difference in this case. Expected Results: Nautilus may optionally display an error message and change its current directory to "/tmp". It should not terminate Additional info: A similar bug also occurs when nautilus is used to view a file (eg plain text) and the text file is deleted. If a refresh is forced upon nautilus, the program crashes.
I'd expect this to be fixed in Rawhide.
Reproduced 3b with nautilus-2.0.5-4
I can't reproduce this with the latest nautilus in rawhide. If i delete a textfile that is displayed the window is removed. If i rm -rf /tmp/a while showing /tmp/a/b nothing happens, but when i refresh the directory i get a warning that it couldn't be opened, "maybe it was removed", then the window disappears. If i'm in /tmp/a when it is removed the window just disappears.