regular segfaults with .gvfs access

SUCCESS!

Simply by adding '-s' to the gvfs-fuse-daemon arguments ("disable multi-threaded operation") I am able to hammer away with complete reliability!

I do not notice any loss in performance. In the interim, I have renamed /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-fuse-daemon to /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-fuse-daemon.real and put this crappy script at /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-fuse-daemon

#!/bin/sh

/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-fuse-daemon.real $@ -s

Poor, but It Works For Me. Hopefully the next update of gvfs-fuse will contain a working binary that doesn't crash.

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

First I undid the shell script described above so that the non-debug hardy-proposed binary was present at /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-fuse-daemon, then installed the .ddeb:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46032 2008-05-27 15:29 /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-fuse-daemon

And finally logged out + in, and followed https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace - the results are attached.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind ...

OK, I've re-read the backtrace and realised I need to flesh it out with symbols from 'gvfs' , libfuse2, et al... so here's another try attached - hopefully this will be more use.

thank you for your work on that, could you install libglib2.0-0-dbgsym and get a new valgrind log?

I've sent the issue upstream now on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536614

libglib2.0-0-dbgsym now installed... valgrind log attached.

I have also sent this to the upstream bug you listed.

I've been experiencing the same problem for since the release of Ubuntu 8.04 and the fix mentioned at the top also didn't help me. I just want to mention how I always experience the problem just in case it offers some clues:

1. Make a Samba share on another server. Mine are unpublished i.e. you don't see them when browsing the network, but you can "cd" and log into them after which they become visible in Nautilus.
2. Use Gnome Commander to navigate via the ~/.gvfs directory to the samba server and open a source code file in gedit.
3. Edit and save the file.

After a couple of saves at most you get a "Transport endpoint is not connected" error and an "ls -al" of the .gvfs directory returns this:
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs

In /var/log/messages you see this:
Jun 28 18:57:19 Green732 kernel: [ 8748.661968] gvfs-fuse-daemo[6048]: segfault at 0800007a eip b7dec540 esp b740d0ac error 4

I'm running a i386 system and all packages are up to date (2008-06-28).

Since the glib2.0 release 2.6.14 on 3rd July in hardy-proposed, I am no longer seeing this issue. Can anyone else confirm?

Current version is 2.16.4-0ubuntu2 with gvfs-fuse at 0.2.5-0ubuntu1 (the real bug seems to be in glib2.0, not the fuse daemon)

Ah, the real bug has been found and fixed upstream. I can confirm it [1] resolves the problem.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=114694&action=view

This bug was fixed in the package gvfs - 0.99.1-0ubuntu3

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gvfs (0.99.1-0ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_from_svn_fix_fuse_crasher.patch:
    - change from svn to fix fuse crasher (lp: #235326)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:32 +0100

Upstream has since also added

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=114799&action=view

as 'belt and braces' for another locking issue "gvfs-fuse-lock-on-open.patch"

Can both of these be sent for hardy-proposed, please?

I don't mean to rush anyone, but about how long does it take before these fixes appear in Hardy proposed?

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

It works for me. I saved numerous times without a single crash today. Thanks!

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