Bug#498212: gnomevfs: thumbs.db in a windows share seems to crash open dialog in evolution

[Tim Richardson]

Package: libgnomevfs2-0
Version: 1:2.22.0-4
Severity: important
File: gnomevfs

When trying to attach a file in a windows share to an Evolution email, 
evolution crashes. I also saw openoffice crashes that I think are 
related.

The crash happens when navigating into a certain folder in the gnome 
dialog to locate a file to attach. Immediately open double clicking on 
the icof for the probem directory, Evolution crashes. messages.log 
indicates an error: 
Sep  8 16:30:27 u400 kernel: [ 2476.308768] evolution[4153]: segfault at 
0 ip b3ab1148 sp bfb88e20 error 4 in libgnome-vfs.so[b3aac000+a000]


I noticed it was happening in one directory but not in another, even on 
the same share. The problem directory had a thumbs.db file.
good directories didn't. So I deleted the thumbs.db file, and no more 
crashing.

I installed debug libraries for everything, but after removing the 
thumbs.db file it doesn't crash anymore. When I work out how to recreate 
thumbs.db I will see if I can file a more useful bug report.

I have a pure sid virtual machine which crashed in exactly the same way. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.2.1-3           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libacl1                2.2.47-2          Access control list shared library
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.22-3          Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.22-3          Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-glib1         0.6.22-3          Avahi glib integration library
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-3           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfam0                2.7.0-13.3        Client library to control the FAM 
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomevfs2-common    1:2.22.0-4        GNOME Virtual File System (common 
ii  libgnutls26            2.4.1-1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libhal-storage1        0.5.11-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-3          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libselinux1            2.0.65-4          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-3     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 recommends:
ii  gnome-mount                   0.7-2      wrapper for (un)mounting and eject
ii  libgnomevfs2-extra            1:2.22.0-4 GNOME Virtual File System (extra m

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 suggests:
pn  fam                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  libgnomevfs2-bin              1:2.22.0-4 GNOME Virtual File System (support

-- no debconf information