[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#412054: [Strigi-devel] segfault running strigidaemon 0.3.11 on debian

[Jos van den Oever]

2007/2/23, CSights <csights at fastmail.fm>:
> Hi Jon,
>         I was able to find that the daemon segfaults on kontact.desktop file.  I
> discovered which file was causing a segfault by running strigi-daemon under
> gdb, then when there was a segfault I checked lsof to find which file
> strigi-daemon had opened.
>         Trying to run strigi-daemon again after moving kontact.desktop out of the
> search path, it again segfaults on another .desktop file.
>         Adding *.desktop to the exclude filter, strigi-daemon segfaults, this time
> on "Adobe Acrobat 4.0.xpm".  (Do you want this file?)
>         Adding *.xpm to the exclude filter, strigi-daemon segfaults on a .jpg file.
>
>         All of these files I can get the metainfo on (right-click, properties, meta
> info).  Is this also a kfile function?
>         I'm beginning to think strigi simply segfaults on the first file it
> encounters, and is probably a Debian specific problem. A bug has been opened
> already on the debian bug tracker.  If you have any other input let me/us
> know:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=412054
>
Hi C.

It sounds like it crashes on the first file it sees! Does it actually
index any file properly?

Cheers,
Jos

> Thanks,
>         C.
>
> On Friday 23 February 2007 00:41, Jos van den Oever wrote:
> > Hi C.,
> > Thanks for you report. Do you have an idea on what file it crashes?
> > The backtrace is useful in locating approximately where the error is.
> > It is in a kde plugins for analyzing the files. The simple solution
> > would be to remove strigita_kfile.so from your lib directory. This
> > will remove the problem. However, if you could track down the file
> > causing the problem, that would be very nice.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jos
>
>