Bug#313219: gnome-vfs2 crashes in read_entire_file with HAL and Linux 2.4

[Ivan Wong]

Package: libgnomevfs2-common
Version: 2.10.1-4
Followup-For: Bug #313219


I have got a more or less the same BT, just that it's nautuils that crashes on
gnome boot.
libgnomevfs2-dbg doesn't help much in providing the debugging symbols of
libfile.so (where the crash starts). I apt-get source, compiled with
-g3 and -O0, gdb and attached to the process. It seems that
_dl_lookup_symbol fails to find posix_fadvise(). I remarked the call of
posix_fadvise inside modules/file-method.c (do_open) and then there's no
more crash now. (p.s. my kernel is 2.4.27)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-mppe
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-common depends on:
ii  dbus-1                      0.23.4-3     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dbus-glib-1                 0.23.4-3     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                      2.10.0-2     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-mime-data             2.4.2-1      base MIME and Application database
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.8.1-2      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbz2-1.0                  1.0.2-7      high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcdparanoia0              3a9.8-11     Shared libraries for cdparanoia (r
ii  libfam0c102                 2.7.0-7      client library to control the FAM 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.10.0-2     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.0-11.1   LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.6.5-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.10.1-4     The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11                 1.0.16-13.1  GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0               1.0-1        library for common error values an
ii  libhal-storage0             0.4.8-1      Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal0                     0.4.8-1      Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.12.2-1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-5        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsmbclient                3.0.14a-5    shared library that allows applica
ii  libtasn1-2                  0.2.10-4     Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2                     2.6.16-7     GNOME XML library
ii  shared-mime-info            0.16-3       FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-4    compression library - runtime

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