Re: [Nautilus-list] Weird Nautilus crash

[Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro eazel com>]

Matthias Warkus wrote:
> 
> Hi people,
> 
> for months and months now Nautilus has compiled perfectly for me, yet
> it crashes everytime:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> gdk_rgb_choose_visual () at gdkrgb.c:509
> 509       best_visual = tmp_list->data;
> 
> #0  gdk_rgb_choose_visual () at gdkrgb.c:509
> #1  0x4039ca81 in gdk_rgb_init () at gdkrgb.c:644
> #2  0x8070efa in main ()
> 
> I've been translating Nautilus 'blind', without being able to test my
> translations, for months now. But I'll finally try to track this crash
> down now, as I need some current screenshots for my paper. (See why
> I'm obnoxiously posting this all over the lists? I promise this is the
> last time.)
> 
> Has anyone experienced this crash, too? Can it be fixed?
> 
> mawa

I havent seen this crash before.

Looking at the gdkrgb code might give some clues:

  visuals = gdk_list_visuals ();
  tmp_list = visuals;
  best_visual = tmp_list->data;

So for some reason the gdk_list_visuals() call is returning NULL (or
trash?) and it bombs.

Is there something special about your display hardware ?

Can you try some of the test programs in nautilus ? 

nautilus/test/test-nautilus-image-background for example.

-re