Bug 13138 – gnome-vfs 1.x needs to be updated.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description John M. Burks 2003-01-02 23:50:29 UTC]

gnome-vfs 1.x, which applications like evolution are linked against, has a
serious bug which causes evolution to crash upon opening some types of html
email.  gnome-vfs 1.0 is the latest gnome-vfs 1.x package, however not only does
gentoo not use this package by default, it doesn't even  have an ebuild for it.
 The latest ebuild gentoo has is 1.0.5.  I'm not sure whether gnome's anomalous
versioning scheme has confused somebody, or if you people are simply unaware of
the fact that there's a newer version of this package available.

For the curious, the following information was provided by gdb upon my debugging
the program:
Core was generated by `evolution-mail --disable-crash-dialog'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.

#0  0x401a0850 in read_num_val () from /usr/lib/libgnomevfs.so.0
#1  0x4019f626 in gnome_vfs_mime_magic_parse () from /usr/lib/libgnomevfs.so.0

Whatever the problem with this version of gnome-vfs is (it doesn't seem to be
documented in the gnome-vfs ChangeLog), it's obviously a very serious one.  Upon
manually installing gnome-vfs 1.0, the crashes never happened again.  I ask that
you please add an ebuild for the newest version of gnome-vfs 1.x, and that you
make it the default package to be installed for applications which depend on it.

[Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) 2003-01-03 03:53:03 UTC]

could you please tell me where this rumoured last stable version should be findable?
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-vfs/1.0/ Shows 1.0.5 as being the
last released.
there is one release in a 1.1 series, which then patches up to 1.9 as in the
pre-releases of gnome2 (gnome-vfs 2.x )  Which are in portage.

[Comment 2 John M. Burks 2003-01-03 07:15:14 UTC]

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/gnome.org/sources/gnome-vfs/1.0/gnome-vfs-1.0.tar.gz

LATEST-IS-1.0 -> gnome-vfs-1.0.tar.gz (from the directory listing)

While all the files in the gnome-vfs-1.0.5 package have more recent ctimes, it
seems as if 1.0 is the newest. You may be right, but I'm not sure.  The
'latest-is' symlink always points to the most recent version of that series of
the latest gnome package in any particular directory, as far as I can tell. 
Either way, there's definitely an issue here.  I used very modest CFLAGS when
attempting to compile 1.0.5 on my own, when I found out that it was the reason
evolution was crashing.  I didn't apply the gentoo patches to gnome-vfs, so I'm
sure that faulty patches aren't the culprit either. Me saying that 1.0 is the
latest was solely based upon the symlink I saw on the gnome ftp site, so I'm not
100 percent positive, especially since the ctimes are older.  Nonetheless,
there's still definitely an issue that needs to be resolved.

[Comment 3 Markus Bertheau (RETIRED) 2003-01-03 08:21:23 UTC]

The LATEST symlink on gnome.org was an error, it is being fixed as I type. 1.0.5
is the latest.

[Comment 4 Spider (RETIRED) 2003-01-05 21:43:44 UTC]

jdub fixed that the other day.