[SOLVED] Thunar crash in 64-current when copying files with symbols (& é ê) in filenames

brobr · 05-02-2016, 04:53 AM

I just try to copy a bunch of files with french names in the titles and found that Thunar (but not SpaceFM) crashed. This behaviour looked a bit like this bug: thunar-1-6-10-crashes-randomly-while-renaming-files/?highlight=thunar+crash. But it is dependent on the filename; the ones with symbols, when clicked, crash Thunar.

I'm running 64-current as of 31-04-2016. Could it be a language setting problem (at my end)??

Cheers,

Rob

EDIT: I get two different warnings (when checking the terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F1):

space-fm ([pidof spacefm]): Pango-WARNING **: invalid-UTF8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
thunar ([pidof thunar]): Glib-WARNING **: invalid-UTF8 passed to g_io_channel_write_chars()

mralk3 · 05-03-2016, 05:05 PM

Do you have some sample files for us to try and reproduce this? Or maybe share the file names if the file contents are confidential?

It is hard to help you without more information about the files in question.

brobr · 05-03-2016, 05:50 PM

In all the cases they were titles of music-files I downloaded from bandcamp, e.g. from one album:

Quote:

Dieul Dieul de Thiès - Senegal 70 - Sonic Gems & Previously Unreleased Recordings from the 70s - 10 Ariyo
Amara Touré - Senegal 70 - Sonic Gems & Previously Unreleased Recordings from the 70s - 07 El Carretero
Orchestre Laye Thiam - Senegal 70 - Sonic Gems & Previously Unreleased Recordings from the 70s - 06 Massani Cissé

But it also happened with another download. Thus it could be that these were not in UTF8 or something (I find all these 'language' settings quite confusing).

What weird is that I can rename/open/doubleclick these titles via spacefm or pcman but doubleclicking them in thunar caused thunar to crash. That seems a bit over the top for a 'warning'.

Rob

PS No need to buy the songs to test this, although they're worth a listen ;-)

EDIT I just saw that tmux in current was downgraded back to 2.1 because of intolerance of version 2.2 to anything but UTF8... After resume from suspend I lost my terminals (ctr-alt-F1 gives a blank) and I cannot open a new thunar window (also blank)... I wonder whether these things relate to each other.

EDIT2 after installing upgrades and reboot... no joy.. click one of those songtitles in Thunar and it crashes, gone, off screen, totałêmènté

EDIT3 I should have googled with the given error first: it's related to the dropbox-thunar plugin, another UTF8-only program. Off my system now. And the music plays after clicking the file in thunar ....;-)

EDIT4 The Sbo version 0.2.0 of this plugin has been upgraded upstream to 0.2.1 and that one bypasses the non-UTF-files and let's Thunar live.