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[Bug 1405441] Re: nautilus crashes when trying to view the properties of any folder not owned by root with gksudo or sudo

 

Hello chris, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nautilus into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.6 in a
few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Also affects: nautilus (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: nautilus (Ubuntu Utopic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  nautilus crashes when trying to view the properties of any folder not
  owned by root with gksudo or sudo

Status in Nautilus:
  Fix Released
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  Fix Released
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nautilus source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in nautilus source package in Utopic:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Prevents a user from using sudo or gksudo to view or change the
  owner properties of folder not owned by root. In this case clamav

   * This also fixes the following upstream bug report which has not
  been reported on launchpad:
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700492

   * The debdiff above applies a fix from upstream gnome git:
  https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=f7d1394a03e6d02cd5c67f9c85a142e33f14566f
  but has been fixed in 3.14.2 of nautilus and is not present in vivid

  [Test Case]

  * Install gksu and clamav (sudo apt-get install gksu clamav)
  * Run gksudo nautilus from the terminal
  * Navigate to /var/lib and right-click on the folder clamav and click on Properties
  * Nautilus crashes with a segfault in _IO_vfprintf_internal

  [Regression Potential]
  * Low, this patch just fixes incorrect handling of the owner field, it should not introduce any issues and has been well tested in 3.14.

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  This constantly happens when trying to look at the properties of a
  file after running gksudo nautilus.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: nautilus 1:3.12.2-0ubuntu1~trusty3 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3-staging]
  Uname: Linux 3.14.0-031400-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Dec 24 08:33:41 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
  GsettingsChanges:

  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-24 (61 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  ProcCmdline: nautilus
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SegvAnalysis:
   Segfault happened at: 0x7f37cd17e8f3 <_IO_vfprintf_internal+7443>:	repnz scas %es:(%rdi),%al
   PC (0x7f37cd17e8f3) ok
   source "%es:(%rdi)" (0x2078756d00202d00) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
   destination "%al" ok
  SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
  Signal: 11
  SourcePackage: nautilus
  StacktraceTop:
   _IO_vfprintf_internal (s=s@entry=0x7fff36e8aa30, format=<optimized out>, format@entry=0x4f454e "%s\n%s", ap=ap@entry=0x7fff36e8aba8) at vfprintf.c:1661
   __GI___vasprintf_chk (result_ptr=0x7fff36e8ab88, flags=1, format=0x4f454e "%s\n%s", args=0x7fff36e8aba8) at vasprintf_chk.c:66
   g_vasprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
   g_strdup_vprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
   g_strdup_printf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
  Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in _IO_vfprintf_internal()
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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