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

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:05:52PM +0800, Ivan Wong wrote:
> 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)

Odd, when creating a simple sample program that calls posix_fadvise it works
fine on both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

Does gnomevfs-cat /etc/debian_version work for you with debians gnome-vfs 2.10
or does that also crash ?

  Sjoerd
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