[26048] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.3.11: nautilus / File Roller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Sep 9 01:01:15 2004
Message-Id: <200409090501.i8951Aas024593@bart-savagewood.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 01:01:10 -0400
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: bart-savagewood.mit.edu
Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.3.11 (with mkserv)
Display type: ifb
Shell: /bin/sh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
A user came into the Sipb office; he had discovered that
Nautilus let him navigate his files and let him double-click
on files.
He tried double-clicking on a *.zip file, and a *.tgz file.
He got errors.
What's wrong:
On Solaris, the *.tgz file opens an application called
File Roller, and displays a dialog announcing
"An error occurred while loading the archive."
"tar: directory checksum error"
(This can be reproduced with the file
/mit/outland/src/xpdf-0.91.tgz)
On Solaris, the *.zip doubleclick also opens File Roller,
but has different behavior for different zip files.
/mit/outland/src/zipsrc.zip opens fine.
/mit/outland/src/saxon6_5_2.zip crashes File Roller (silently)
The thing that prompted my bug report is that the user had a
zip file which would crash File Roller with some type of bus
error bug message. Unfortunately, I can't find a file that
reproduces the crash that the user saw.
What should have happened:
Well, I realize that Gnome is a big hairy mess that isn't
entirely under our control. It still would have been nice
if double-clicking worked.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
These files all work okay on linux; the Solaris bug report
for *.tgz files make me suspect that File Roller is trying
to use "tar zxf", although I haven't looked into internals.
I'm not sure what's going on with the Solaris zip files.
