Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:37:18 +0200 From: Hans Nieser <h.nieser@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anything using gnome-vfs-2.16.1 segfaults Message-ID: <45232C6E.3090705@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <45231FE4.8030709@xs4all.nl> References: <45231FE4.8030709@xs4all.nl>
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Hans Nieser wrote: > Installed gnome 2.16 today and found that various applications crash on > startup. Others (i.e. Eye of Gnome) crash when the open-file dialog is > opened. (Some backtraces at end of this message.) > > It seems _gtk_xdg_alias_list_lookup is called with list == NULL, this > should never happen unless xdg_mime_init wasn't called by gnome-vfs first. > Why this is so, is beyond me. > > kaeru in #freebsd-gnome on freenode said his troubles went away when he > reverted to gnome-vfs-2.16.0. > > Some backtraces: <snip> Ok it seems gnome-vfs-2.16.1 updated their xdgmime code, which removes several xdg_mime_init() calls from various functions in xdgmime.c which gnome-vfs relied upon for the initialisation of the alias_list global. I don't know enough about gnome-vfs/xdgmime to come up with a patch but I will file a bugreport at gnome's buzilla anyway.
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