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nautilus package

Nautilus chokes on file named 'forEd'

Bug #136234 reported by FourBrane
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

To reproduce (in version 2.14.3):
1. In Terminal, name any text file 'forEd' or even 'forEd.txt', etc
2. Launch Nautilus and navigate to the directory containing the forbidden name 'ForEd'

Nautilus will choke, failing to display any entries for the directory.

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FourBrane (mental-mentalware) wrote :

The file I am using begins with 0A, which may (or may not) be significant.

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Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. I can't reproduce this, can you attach the file here ?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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FourBrane (mental-mentalware) wrote :

I spent some time poking around with this problem. Creating empty files named things like "forEd, firEd, forMe, forYou" all created the freeze. So, on the theory that I might have a munged directory, I copied the entire directory elsewhere. In the new copy, I could duplicate the error. Ok, so that made me start looking at various other things inside the directory.
I have a file which was named lcareport.sh but which was actually a Perl script (first line #!/usr/bin/perl -w) rather than bash. This particular file also had (in the original directory) an "Important" icon attached to it. In the duplicate directory, no icon was attached. When I attached the "Important" icon, Nautilus froze.
So, I renamed the file to just "lcareport." This seems to have corrected the problem. "for..." files can be created at will and the renamed file can have an
"important" icon attached, all without causing a freeze. SO, Nautilus seems to have been paying overmuch attention to a .sh file type.
Can you duplicate this problem now?

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Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I will try this week end.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Incomplete → New
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FourBrane (mental-mentalware) wrote :

After further testing, now I can't duplicate the problem either! I'll keep exploring to find out what might have caused it.

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Closing this report for now, feel free to re open it if you can reproduce this bug with a up to date Gutsy, thanks.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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